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Sounds like equivocation on the Queen's part. "Every other day" is relative in a given week to a specific day. Since it's a general rule, we should be able to apply it to some sort of specific period (otherwise, it's a meaningless statement). So Alice is spot-on that eventually, 'every other day' will come to a given day - which, if the present day, would be 'today' - yet, the Queen rejects that and claims that the present day is somehow exempt from ever possibly being classified as the 'other day' previously referred to. When done in real life, it's usually someone being facetious. Here's another example: "They say one should do something nice for someone. I'm someone, so you should do something nice for me!" Here, we go from 'someone' being 'a person other than oneself' to 'a specific person' (thus equivocating terms). |
| answered on Friday, Jul 16, 2021 09:02:53 PM by TrappedPrior (RotE) | |
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