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Re: [jboske] RE: I like chocolate

In a message dated 10/5/2002 11:32:47 AM Central Daylight Time, a.rosta@hidden.email writes:

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> So, I like chocolate comes down to "if I were presented with a bit
> chocolate, I would in a sufficient number of cases with a sufficient
> variety of types of chocolate and types of circumstances, like the
> bit of chocolate presented."

I wonder how that differs from "I would like chocolate", "I would
like fat-free chocolate (if it existed)".

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The purely hypothetical cases (for which I see no shortcuts) do not require actual cases to test.