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<DIV>RZS wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">So, most men are dead, therefore any given man
should be presumed dead,<BR>even if he's 20 years old and we just saw him alive
five minutes ago.</FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV>CM responds:</DIV>
<DIV>Your response merely muddles the issue. The only categories of men whose
rov would be relevant are those that have relevance to the issue at hand. How
many men have died in past centuries is totally irrelevant to the question at
hand whether a man who was alive before us still survives. To think otherwise is
patently absurd. Furthermore, I am not sure your “rov” of all men are dead is in
fact true. I suspect that the cumulative sum of all dead men over the approx
230 generations since Adam may in fact be less than the number of men
alive today - some 3.7 billion (due to exponential growth). In any case you
would have to prove your rov. It is not self evident as you seem to think.</DIV>
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<DIV>Kol tuv</DIV>
<DIV>Chaim Manaster</DIV>
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