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'A typical Englishman is one who possesses all the properties possessed by a majority of Englishmen'. You will easily realize that most Englishmen do not possess all the properties that most Englishmen possess, and therefore a typical Englishman, according to your own definition, would be untypical. The trouble has arisen through the fact that the word 'typical' has been defined by a reference to all properties and has then been treated as itself a property. It seemed therefore that, if it is to be legitimate to speak of 'all properties', you must not really mean 'all properties', but only 'all properties that do not refer to a totality of properties'.
Source: My Philosophical Development, 1959, by Bertrand Russell
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