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If a bag contains exactly one red marble at the start then all marbles in this bag are black is in fact false, but when you throw in a black marble the value does NOT suddenly become true, as the red marble still exists, which is exactly the point of the scenario: adding a black marble to a bag where that claim is false shouldn't make the bag suddenly become true, and it still didn't in your example... it would, though, if the empty bag were defined to be false (which it should not be based on this argument).



thanks, I see my misunderstanding now




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