3 ms·
That's not how words work. "I don't know everyone who is Japanese" does not mean every person who exists is Japanese.
by bmcfeeley 9y ago
That's not how words work.
"I don't know everyone who is Japanese" does not mean every person who exists is Japanese.
- leereeves 9y agoObviously the sample "everyone I know" is not representative. Really, there's no reason to ever mention it. But mentioning it suggests it is representative of something, and if it were a representative sample, 0% of the sample has trait X suggests 0% of the population has trait X.