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Originally posted by CSflim
Flawed logic there John!
MacGnG's stated that:
All questions end in a question mark.
He did NOT say:
Everything that ends in a question mark is a question.
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Oh the irony. I didn't actually see that MacGnG had said that, therefore I had not made the logical error you refer to ( I believe it's called 'asserting the antecedent' for future reference). If I had made such an error, I would have made that post, but making the post does not mean that I made the error. Ergo, you have in fact asserted the antecedent in accusing me of doing so.
My question was not the small-minded bit of pedantry you assumed it to be, but in fact an attempt to post an unanswerable question which was not one of the tediously predictable reams of 'this statement is false' variations which this thread seems to have provoked. It was supposed to illustrate the importance of form and the requirement for information to be communicated in order that it be requested. The question with no meaning is a member of the set of questions with no answer and therefore a valid response to the thread title.