Clarification on Explanation
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studying0
· started 2022-08-21 15:25
· last activity 2022-08-21 18:20
· 1 reply
Can somebody please clarify what this statement means: "For the second statement, saying that 'few As fail to be Bs' is equivalent to saying that some As are not Bs, but most are."
Thank you!
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Emil-Kunkin
· 2022-08-21 18:20
Hi Savannah0,
Lets look at the idea that few As fail to be B. And for the sake of simplicity, lets turn it into "few cats fail to be brown."
To say that something "fails to be brown" means that it is not brown. If most cats fail to be brown, that means that more than half of cats are not brown. If few (which in this case I'd take to mean less than half) cats fail to be brown, that means that most cats are in fact brown, although we know that some do indeed fail to be brown.
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