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  2. From: danoc@earlybird.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan O'Connell [CONTRACTOR])
  3. Newsgroups: talk.philosophy.misc
  4. Subject: Sweeping Generalizatino Alert!
  5. Message-ID: <l70demINNgc8@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
  6. Date: 24 Jul 92 16:54:46 GMT
  7. References: <9207202017.AA15327@feds66.Prime.COM> <1992Jul21.175150.14029@husc3.harvard.edu> <LEE.92Jul22124622@meercat.wang.com>
  8. Organization: Bureau of Sweeping Generalizations!
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  11.  
  12. (Lee Story) writes:
  13.  
  14. >resolved by "the pinnacles are...", as any third grader will tell you.
  15. >To move beyond the idiosyncracies of natural language and accept the
  16. >broader meaning of his prohibition would seem to demand that we accept
  17. >something very like monotheism a priori.  A peculiar position for
  18. >Mikhail!
  19.  
  20. Hmmmm. I certainly don't know any third graders who 
  21. would speak like that. Rather precocious, eh?
  22.  
  23. ---
  24. Dano
  25. 1st Warning Department
  26. Sub-Assistant 3rd Class to the
  27. Junior Associate Undersecretary
  28. Petty Offenses Division
  29. Bureau of Sweeping Generalizations
  30.