On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Ed Murphy wrote: > 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.
I know you were; what I should have added is that the rule doesn't read that way except under the sort of tortured grammar constructions that are generally Thrown Out Of Court.
