Evaluate the following claim, paying particular attention to problems of clarity. Note that claims may also present problems of knowability, though we don't address knowability per se in this chapter.I'm not very photogenic-no photograph anybody has ever taken of me really looks like me.
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"Photogenic" is not a clearly defined notion, but there probably isn't anything that can be done about it. We doubt that no photograph resembles the speaker; it's more likely that he just doesn't like the way he looks in the photographs. Maybe he just doesn't like the way he looks.
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a. true b. false
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