Time: Sun Jul 13 15:40:52 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA04734; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 15:40:37 -0700 (MST) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA27917; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 15:40:21 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 15:40:02 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: The Ecological Fallacy Dear Clients and Friends, The responses which I have been getting to my note about Circuit City's new HP computer line provide us with a great opportunity to witness a common fallacy, which you may have studied, if you ever took graduate school statistics. It is called "The Ecological Fallacy," and it has nothing to do with the environment or pollution. Here's the error: All corporations are bad. <---- faulty premise Circuit City is a corporation. <---- provable presumption Therefore, Circuit City is bad. <---- well, of course!! And so is everyone else who even bothers to mention them in the same breath with the U.S. Constitution, or common law. Gasp!! Never mind that I have made a few great contacts there, among their computer staff. Today, we started to take the HP apart, right in front of all the other customers. One of them worked in IBM systems for 25 years. Piece o' cake for these guys. Of course, some will say I am being "commercial" now. They don't understand the "commerce" clause, quite obviously. Cheesh!! /s/ Paul Mitchell http://www.supremelaw.com ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. Irvine tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.3 on 586 CPU website: http://www.supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. We shall not leave, until our mission is accomplished and justice reigns eternal. ======================================================================== [This text formatted on-screen in Courier 11, non-proportional spacing.]
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