Abraham Lincoln used to ask people, “If you call a dog’s tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?” Most people would answer five. Then Lincoln would answer, “No, a dog has four legs, calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
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Abraham Lincoln used to ask people, “If you call a dog’s tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?” Most people would answer five. Then Lincoln would answer, “No, a dog has four legs, calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”