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From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
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Subject: Re: Commonsense reasoning
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Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 17:15:09 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 21 17:15:09 1984
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References:

>> Q: If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a sheep have?

>> A: Four.  Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

I find this answer less satisfactory than the two given below.
It seems to me that "calling an X a Y" is exactly how we define
what most things are.  SO:

A: One. A tail is leg, those other four things are obviously
something else.

OR:

A: Five. If you call it a leg, it is a leg (albeit of a different
kind), in addition to those other four legs.
					- Toby Robison (not Robinson!)
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