max_i_m (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} max_i_m) wrote,@ 2009-06-01 21:25:00 |
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It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
“made from potato flour in the sense that one cannot say that it is not made from potato flour"
The Lord Justice Hath Ruled: Pringles Are Potato Chips.
As a mainstream mathematician, I'm pleased to see a court ruling utilizing proof by contradiction. The article goes on to state:
"The Supreme Court of Judicature had little patience with Procter & Gamble’s lawyerly attempts to break out of the potato chip category. The company argued that to be “made of potato” Pringles would have to be all potato, or nearly so. If so, Lord Justice Jacob noted, “a marmalade made using both oranges and grapefruit would be made of neither — a nonsense conclusion.”
He was even more dismissive of Procter & Gamble’s argument that to be taxable a product must contain enough potato to have the quality of “potatoness.” This “Aristotelian question” of whether a product has the “essence of potato,” he insisted, simply cannot be answered."
“made from potato flour in the sense that one cannot say that it is not made from potato flour"
The Lord Justice Hath Ruled: Pringles Are Potato Chips.
As a mainstream mathematician, I'm pleased to see a court ruling utilizing proof by contradiction. The article goes on to state:
"The Supreme Court of Judicature had little patience with Procter & Gamble’s lawyerly attempts to break out of the potato chip category. The company argued that to be “made of potato” Pringles would have to be all potato, or nearly so. If so, Lord Justice Jacob noted, “a marmalade made using both oranges and grapefruit would be made of neither — a nonsense conclusion.”
He was even more dismissive of Procter & Gamble’s argument that to be taxable a product must contain enough potato to have the quality of “potatoness.” This “Aristotelian question” of whether a product has the “essence of potato,” he insisted, simply cannot be answered."
