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The above is a logical fallacy (and a distorted form of the issue under discussion). It's the actual definition and quality of something that matters, not the
by pretoriusB 14y ago
The above is a logical fallacy (and a distorted form of the issue under discussion).
It's the actual definition and quality of something that matters, not the popularity of a mis-representation of it. Statistics do not define substance.
Even if 99% of milk sold was chocolate milk, that wouldn't mean that milk contains cocoa. Milk is a specific thing, yogurt is another.
You're only confused in the case of yogurt, because whereas "chocolate milk" is sold with a different name than that of milk (that makes the different obvious), sweetened flavored yogurt is sold as "yogurt".
- baddox 14y agoSo are you taking the side of "people don't have two eyes"?
- pretoriusB 14y agoNo, I'm taking the side of "people have two eyes, but a small percentage of them have one or both taken out or not functioning". And the side of "yoghurt is a specific thing, and products based on yoghurt don't get to redefine what it is, even if they are sold under as members of the "yoghurt" category, the same way that chocolate milk being sold in the "milk" section does not get to redefine milk as having cocoa".