Spencer Heath Archive

Item 462

 

 

 

To prove that

One cat has ten tails:

(1) No cat has nine tails.

But one cat has one more tail

than no cat, who has nine (l)

and 1 + 9 = 10.

Therefore,

One cat has ten tails.

 

Fallacy:

It is not (1) that no cat has nine tails,

because no cat has no tails.

 

 

 

/”The fallacy,” Heath would say in telling this,

“is treating something as nothing.”/