Or a simple case of the fallacy of denying the antecedent. The argument is "If you are naked then you are a Jain". Whether or not this is true, denying the antecedent ("You are not naked") doesn't entail the denial of the consequent ("you are not a Jain"). Just as (1) "If you are French then you are European" and (2) "you are not French" does not entail (3) "you are not European".
I always thought "ass" and "arse" were two completely different words except in American English. In Middle English (Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale", for instance), the latter is spelled "ers" and has nothing to do with the animal. Until recently, most English people pronounced them differently although I noticed that Prince Harry referred to his "ass" in an interview a few days ago.
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Or a simple case of the fallacy of denying the antecedent. The argument is "If you are naked then you are a Jain". Whether or not this is true, denying the antecedent ("You are not naked") doesn't entail the denial of the consequent ("you are not a Jain"). Just as (1) "If you are French then you are European" and (2) "you are not French" does not entail (3) "you are not European".
I always thought "ass" and "arse" were two completely different words except in American English. In Middle English (Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale", for instance), the latter is spelled "ers" and has nothing to do with the animal. Until recently, most English people pronounced them differently although I noticed that Prince Harry referred to his "ass" in an interview a few days ago.
I think that should be "ond" not "and". Let's keep the language pure. And did Lincoln say "What!" at the beginning of the Address ?