Of limited scope?
I get what the sentence is trying to say, but I am not sure about the structure of the underlined part. Could you help me figure it out?
Classify a whale as a mammal is to assert the generalization that all infants whales are provided with milk by their mothers, and this proposition is a general law, although of limited scope.
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teacherJapan Could you help me figure it out? I am surprised you haven't mentioned the other mistakes or corrected them. To classify a whale as a mammal is to assert the generalization that all infant whales are provided with milk by their mother s a nd that this proposition is a general law, although of limited scope.
- teacherJapan Could you help me figure it out?
- I am surprised you haven't mentioned the other mistakes or corrected them.
- To classify a whale as a mammal is to assert the generalization that all infant whales are provided with milk by their mother s a nd that this proposition is a general law, although of limited scope.
- I don't get what it is trying to say, "trying" being the operative word.
- That sentence is faulty in several ways.
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teacherJapanCould you help me figure it out?
I am surprised you haven't mentioned the other mistakes or corrected them.
To classify a whale as a mammal is to assert the generalization that all infant whales are provided with milk by their mother
0teacherJapanthis proposition is a general law, although of limited scope.
~ this proposition is a general law although it is a general law of limited scope.
That is, it's only about whales, i.e., it's limited to whales.
Or at least that's what I infer from that statement.
CJ
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