From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!hou5f!tar
Newsgroups: net.women
Title: RE: conception is human argument
Article-I.D.: hou5f.201
Posted: Sat Jan 29 20:51:06 1983
Received: Sun Jan 30 03:01:23 1983


In a college course I took on logic, they explained your method of argument
as a fallacy. They assigned a Latin name to it but I remember it
by its working name, the fallacy of the beard. 

The example of this fallacy is as follows:
 There is an accepted number of hairs that every one will agree
constitute a beard, say 2000.
Will 1999 hairs still make a beard? Yes.
Will 1998 hairs still make a beard? Yes
Since there is not a specific number that will seperate the beards
from the nonbeards, one hair must make up a beard.

Obviously one hair isn't a beard.

You've done a similar thing as this with the time line of the
conception-birth-afterbirth process.
T.A.Rock hou5f!tar
Holmdel ABI