Dear Dover, We obviously agree in the sense of your first sentence.
But we have some problem with the quantifier ''some''. This is
not an referring expression (aka ''name'') as can be grasped by:
''someone has stolen my car''. But when '''some'' is substituted
with an name like a number for a variable then at least one can
know what is stated. There was a time when many confused
''veritas'' (truth) with ''auctoritas'' (authority). In our Western
civilisation Aristoteles ''ruled'' for 2000 years with his authority.
Till Galileo refuted his physics and Frege his logic. I used to
have about 5 different HIFI Magazine till I become A'gon
member in 2007 . I preferred our discussions above all
the praising in the magazine and terminated all my subscriptions.
While we all (?) like our own pudding the most we like to see
that others have the same opinion. A kind of confirmation of
our own (good) taste (grin).