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		azag0 on Dec 6, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Eviation’s Alice is an all-electric, nine-person a... Words are used in a context which shapes their meaning. “Is” there implies to most that the aircraft already exists.

em3rgent0rdr on Dec 6, 2018 [–]

“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”

azag0 on Dec 6, 2018 | [–]

Well, he was right about that, although there is little doubt his intent was to deceive.

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