Abe Lincoln on “Five Legs”

Five Legs


President Abraham Lincoln was once embroiled in a
dispute with a colleague. Unable to get his opponent
to see the error in his thinking Lincoln said, “Tell me,
how many legs does a cow have?”
“What?” responded the man, “why four of course.”
“Now suppose,” continued the president, “that you
call the cow’s tail a leg. Then how many legs does a
cow have?”
“Five,” replied the man.
“That’s where you are wrong,” replied Lincoln.
“Calling a cow’s tail a leg does not make it a leg.”

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