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> This looks like proof by assertion

It’s not a proof at all, by anything. It’s a description of the singular / plural distinction in English.

> Linguistic tautology is not mathematics. That way lies madness.

Singular vs. plural is not a mathematical fact, it’s a linguistic fact. I’m sorry you consider that bollocks.




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