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Find the 3 errors in a paragraph

 
 
Post: # 383,680
View Profile flyboy804
 
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Reply Tue 30 Sep, 2003 05:40 pm
No problem, BBB. I didn't know whether you were serious or not; but in any case I long ago learned to avoid spitting contests. And I am still looking for a solution to the circular reasoning in my post.
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Post: # 386,667
View Profile Roberta
 
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Reply Thu 2 Oct, 2003 01:49 pm
I'm with Flyboy. The circular reasoning could make a person crazy. Specifically moi. If the third error is that there are only two errors, then there is a third error, which means that there aren't two errors; there are three, which means that the statement is correct, which means that ....

Someone get me some smelling salts, please.
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Post: # 387,147
View Profile ossobuco
 
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Reply Thu 2 Oct, 2003 07:32 pm
I have to go back and look at the statement. What was left after the two obvious errors didn't please me, but I didn't identify my displeasure as observing actual Error.
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