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pc: > Yes, there are probably men taller than Kareem, but that doesn't mean > that it is more true that they are tall. At a certain point you > generally (as I said, you could, I suppose, set up an infinite scale, > but it wouldn't be very useful) flatten out (and introduce variants > using "very" or "scarcely" and the like). There are surely some > correlations between actual height in units, quantity of being tall, > and the truth of the claim that one is tall, but the mapping do not > have to be linear in any way -- and usually aren't. I agree with the last 2 sentences, but I think that from these we can conclude that it is in fact helpful to think that it is more true that the men taller than Kareem are tall. That is, it is true that Kareem is tall, but even more true that the even taller guys are tall. --And.