On 1/14/07, Ken Arromdee <arromdee(a)rahul.net> wrote:
No, the answer is that some phrases are not meant to
express universal
statements just because the literal words of the phrase don't include any
qualifiers. "The sky is blue" doesn't mean "the sky is always blue,
every
single place". If I tell you that caviar is expensive, are you *really*
going to claim that I'm therefore denying the possibility that some store
could be going out of business and holding a 90% off sale on caviar?
I think people would object if it could be shown that caviar was cheap
50+% of the time.
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geni