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Last Law-bearing Prophet sa 77<br />

<strong>to</strong> deliver any apples and (2) not <strong>to</strong> deliver any more<br />

sweets. Both of these statements are of an absolute<br />

scope and do not allow for any exceptions. Suppose<br />

the supplier were <strong>to</strong> logically combine the two<br />

statements <strong>to</strong>gether. According <strong>to</strong> the faulty Ahmadī<br />

logic, he would yield the following result:<br />

[No more apples] + [No more sweets] = [No more<br />

sweet apples]<br />

Based on the above conclusion, the supplier could<br />

send the grocery s<strong>to</strong>re owner non-sweet apples<br />

without violating his instructions.<br />

This analysis is clearly flawed. When two rules are<br />

combined, the resulting rule should satisfy the two<br />

producing rules individually. However, according <strong>to</strong><br />

the erroneous rule produced above, the supplier<br />

could deliver non-sweet apples. Non-sweet apples<br />

are a subset of apples. Statement 1 said no apples, be<br />

they sweet or non-sweet. The combination of the two<br />

rules is not correct.<br />

The accurate combination of the two rules is below:<br />

[No more apples] + [No more sweets] = X<br />

[No more apples] + [No more sweets] = [No more<br />

apples] + [No more sweets]<br />

[No more apples] + [No more sweets] = [No more] *<br />

( [apples] + [sweets] )<br />

[No more apples] + [No more sweets] = [No more<br />

apples and no more sweets]<br />

(The final statement can be rewritten as [no more<br />

apples or sweets])

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