• ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Can someone explain where the notion of an exception proving the rule came from? This has never made the slightest bit of sense to me, lol.

    • lobut@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      I remember wrestling with that for years. I dunno, my last interpretation of it was the fact that if it was rare and considered an exception then the rule has a point?

      I dunno. I’m more than likely wrong but that’s as far as I could go with it.