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To: cpurick
And suppose that Bill and Walter had identical interests, shared identical experiences.

False premise. No two people, even close relatives, will ever have completely identical interests nor will the ever share identical experiences.

2 posted on 09/17/2009 8:28:24 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: pnh102

“false premise”

You can’t have false premises in a supposition. It’s a hypothetical, a ceteris paribus exploration of whether Bill Gates would have been a failure if someone else had gotten some of his “luck.”


13 posted on 09/17/2009 9:00:28 AM PDT by cpurick (Awww, this thread's too good! Now I have to go change my pajamas.)
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To: pnh102
False premise

Yep.

Even so, this is a classic straw man argument, also it assumes that if the "pretend brother" invented Microsoft, then Bill would be a "Disaffected Blue-Collar Grunt", or somesuch.

Why couldn't BOTH brothers be successful? One reinvent software, and one reinvent hardware? Or both of them team up to quadruple MS in size? Or some other premise?

16 posted on 09/17/2009 9:48:54 AM PDT by wbill
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