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Originally Posted by montsnmags
To quote, or rather paraphrase the master...
"There is some difficulty in justifiably assigning to it the second of the epithets you applied to the statement, inasmuch as the precise correlation between the information you communicated and the intent, insofar as they can be determined and demonstrated, is such as to cause epistemological problems, of sufficient magnitude as to lay upon the logical and semantic resources of the English language a heavier burden than they can reasonably be expected to bear."
A position in cabinet for the first person who names this master without googling.
Cheers,
Marc
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Sir Humphrey Appleby on being asked to give a yes or no answer.
I'll guess at 'Yes, Minister' (rather than 'Yes, Prime Minister').