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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Entailment.

Hello,

I have a problem with this example:

A: X is a two-legged cat B: X is a biped

Is this example correct? I know biped is a two-legged animal by definition, but since the cat lost its legs - does A entail B?
  

Top answer

Yes. But only if you agree that a surgeon who is carrying two legs that he amputated from a patient is a quadruped. Actually a biped has two feet .

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Yes.
But only if you agree that a surgeon who is carrying two legs that he amputated from a patient is a quadruped.