“Odd numbers are prime” IMO, although there’s room for disagreement there.
Most people would automatically read “ducks lay eggs” as referring to a strict subset of ducks, but I don’t think “smokers know the health effects of smoking” would automatically be read as referring to only a strict subset of smokers.
It’s true that “smokers know the health effects of smoking” wouldn’t be interpreted as rigidly as the mathematical statement “Odd numbers are prime”, but I doubt it’d be interpreted as loosely as “almost all smokers know the most famous health effect of smoking, and most of them know some of the less famous ones” either.
(There’s at least one way to interpret “smokers know the health effects of smoking” a bit less literally than I did: if smokers knew the total health risk they ran by smoking, one could reasonably assert that smokers were fully informed for the purpose of deciding to smoke, even if they couldn’t name every individual health effect, or every effect’s individual magnitude.)
“Odd numbers are prime” IMO, although there’s room for disagreement there.
Most people would automatically read “ducks lay eggs” as referring to a strict subset of ducks, but I don’t think “smokers know the health effects of smoking” would automatically be read as referring to only a strict subset of smokers.
It’s true that “smokers know the health effects of smoking” wouldn’t be interpreted as rigidly as the mathematical statement “Odd numbers are prime”, but I doubt it’d be interpreted as loosely as “almost all smokers know the most famous health effect of smoking, and most of them know some of the less famous ones” either.
(There’s at least one way to interpret “smokers know the health effects of smoking” a bit less literally than I did: if smokers knew the total health risk they ran by smoking, one could reasonably assert that smokers were fully informed for the purpose of deciding to smoke, even if they couldn’t name every individual health effect, or every effect’s individual magnitude.)