[meteorite-list] Mr. Kramskoi & Meteorite Offers from Russia

From: MexicoDoug <MexicoDoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:38:16 -0600
Message-ID: <008301c76a5e$288dcc00$1bcc5ec8_at_0019110394>

Sterling wrote:

"Hi, Mike, List, I have to quarrel with your arithmetic, Mike."

Hi Sterling, Please don't quarrel with Mike's thoughts, there's been enough
quarreling and provocations already. No arithmetic intended nor was he
referencing PT Barnum, etc. (Interesting post, Susan!)

It was in response only one person chasing "obviously too good to be true
Internet deals" in earnest. Rather than bemusing how many suckers are in
the world, it suggested in a relatively tactful way that (one) (person) born
(on July 24) got suckered (out of 100 Euros).

The only predicate you could logically dispute in an ancillary manner, is
whether you think there is a day when a sucker weren't born. That could
prove difficult. Unless you are a paleontologist who wants to extrapolate
into the past and believes there weren't enough gullible dinosaurs,etc. on
order to be eaten for dinner :-)...Or I suppose you could dispute whether it
weren't a sucker's deal (hehehe, good luck, amigo, though we can hope for
him)

Logically, Mike's statement with quantifiers might be illustrated like:

(There exists) a sucker is born (for each) day.

It doesn't restrict, as in your logically flawed and inaccurate repetition
which formed the basis for and assumption investigated in your post:
(One and only one sucker) is born every day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_quantification

A thought is born every day,
Back to meteorites,
Best Health,
Doug

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb"
To: "Michael Farmer" Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mr. Kramskoi & Meteorite Offers from Russia


> Hi, Mike, List,
>
> I have to quarrel with your arithmetic, Mike.
> A sucker a day is only 365 new suckers a year,
> and the population of suckers is far too great to
> have been created at that rate.
> The great Phineas T. Barnum is the source
> of that quote, and I believe that he said, "There's
> a sucker born every minute," Even that is only
> 525,960 new suckers a year, which sounds a
> little on the shy side to me. But I'll take old
> Phineas' word for it; he knew his suckers.
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Farmer"
> To: "M come Meteorite Meteorites"
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 10:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mr. Kramskoi & Meteorite Offers from Russia
>
>
> A sucker is born every day.
> Michael Farmer
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Received on Mon 19 Mar 2007 03:38:16 PM PDT