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x/website: typo in blog #49676

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kaspar-metsa-helmes opened this issue Nov 19, 2021 · 2 comments
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x/website: typo in blog #49676

kaspar-metsa-helmes opened this issue Nov 19, 2021 · 2 comments
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What is the URL of the page with the issue?

https://go.dev/blog/declaration-syntax

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I noticed a logical fallacy: "Pointers are the exception that proves the rule."

What did you expect to see?

"Pointers are the exception to the rule."

"exception that proves the rule" is a phrase from Cicero but Cicero actually meant was "exception proves that a rule exists in cases where the exception does not apply"
Here is the backstory where the phrase originated and how it is used incorrectly nowadays:
https://philpapers.org/archive/HOLTEP

Cicero's friend Balbus wanted to keep his Roman citizenship, but other senators said that Rome had laws with many countries like Carthage where giving Roman citizenship to anyone from that country was forbidden - thus giving citizenship to Balbus, from Gades, should also be forbidden! Cicero said there is no explicit law that Gadus' citizens can't get Roman citizenship - the fact that such a law with Carthage exists means that in all other cases Roman citizenship can be granted - the exception of Carthage proves that there is a rule in cases not excepted.

What did you see instead?

@gopherbot gopherbot added this to the Unreleased milestone Nov 19, 2021
@seankhliao seankhliao changed the title x/website: x/website: typo in blog Nov 19, 2021
@seankhliao seankhliao added the NeedsFix The path to resolution is known, but the work has not been done. label Nov 19, 2021
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Change https://golang.org/cl/365574 mentions this issue: go.dev/_content/blog: fix logical fallacy typo

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This uses the colloquial meaning of the idiom
ref https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/the-exception-that-proves-the-rule

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