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68 Post author: Yvain 21 March 2009 08:55PM

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Comment author: byrnema 22 March 2009 03:52:49AM 4 points [-]

"Religious people are intolerant" is testable and true.

The way this sentence is constructed "X is a subset of Y", you know that it is false if there is just a single counter-example. To falsify this statement you just need to find a single religious person that is tolerant. So it's probably (!) false even if its generally true.