(May 13, 2012 at 6:17 pm)StatCrux Wrote: Really? So if a gym had a general rule admitting both men and women except for Thursday night which is women only, does the Thursday night exception invalidate the general rule admitting both sexes into the club? Or does the general rule still remain? I think anyone with half a brain can see that exceptions do not invalidate general rules, rather the exception proves the rule!
Not if the exception is part of the rule. If your general rule regarding marriage had been "potential for procreation except when...." then you might have an argument. As it stands, you don't.
(May 13, 2012 at 6:17 pm)StatCrux Wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_t...s_the_rule
Read it. It gives a lot of examples of why your concept is wrong.
