Re: Flames, friends, and rules

Subject: Re: Flames, friends, and rules
From: Richard elGurutm Howland-Bolton <reh1 -at- CORNELL -dot- EDU>
Date: Sun, 9 May 1993 08:43:31 -0500

>PS - For those who don't know, "the exception that proves the rule" was
> supposed to mean "the extreme case that puts the rule's validity
> to the test;" a rule that applies even in exceptional cases is a
> rule indeed.

>_________________________________________________________________________
> Mark L. Levinson | E-mail: mark -at- matis -dot- ingr -dot- com

Prove=Test survives in "proving ground"


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