jeffw@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-27 个月前A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lostmessage-squaremessage-square77fedilinkarrow-up1569arrow-down165
arrow-up1504arrow-down1message-squareA Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lostjeffw@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-27 个月前message-square77fedilink
minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 个月前Read the wiki article. If a black woman has never been on the ballot then every possible statement you make beginning with “for all black women who have ever been on the ballot…” is true.
minus-squarecaden@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-27 个月前Yes, because now you’ve added the critical qualifier “who have ever been on the ballot”. Without that, it doesn’t hold. No black woman has ever won the election or lost the election, because the set of black women who have ever been on the ballot before is empty.
Read the wiki article. If a black woman has never been on the ballot then every possible statement you make beginning with “for all black women who have ever been on the ballot…” is true.
Yes, because now you’ve added the critical qualifier “who have ever been on the ballot”. Without that, it doesn’t hold.
No black woman has ever won the election or lost the election, because the set of black women who have ever been on the ballot before is empty.