G. wrote: > On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Ed Murphy wrote: >>> ============================== CFJ 2977 ============================== >>> MRW and Associates is a second-class person. > > The argument for True seems to stem from R107 arguing as follows: > A. Any person identified by the author as a co-author is a co-author. > B. MRW&A was identified by the author as a co-author. > C. Therefore, MRW&A is a person. > Kudos for an excellect example the fallacy of the undistributed middle > (All A are B; C is B; therefore C is A). FALSE.
Gratuitous: I was going for "A. Any co-author identified by the author is a person" but I'm not going to bother pushing it.
