Talk:Affirming a disjunct

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This fallacy needs a much clearer summary explanation. Reverend Black Percy (talk) 18:39, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

In the example for "Who died on the fourth of July, 1826?", the use of either in English generally implies an exclusive or, at least when I was learning grammar a few decades ago. The meaning appears to have drifted since. Anyway, the dissonance distracted me from the flow of the article. JonathanShade (talk)