Appendix A

It’s tricky how the same word can mean so many different things. Take the word “is,” for example. At a low point in his presidency, Bill Clinton came up against a perjury charge when his own lawyer, Robert Bennett, told a federal judge that “there is absolutely no sex of any kind” between Clinton and then-White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Confronted with the obvious lie, Clinton argued that the statement might nonetheless be true if one took “is” to mean “is none” rather than “is and never has been.”

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