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I have been wondering about this statement ever since I heard it from a not very bright character on in a hilarious TV series. Can you say this statement is true? If it is true, does that not imply that other plants actually do have brains? Or is there a category of statements which are neither true nor false? 

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I have been wondering about this statement ever since I heard it from a not very bright character on in a hilarious TV series. Can you say this statement is true? If it is true, does that not imply that other plants actually do have brains? Or is there a category of statements which are neither true nor false? 

I think it will come down to how "some" is construed. If it is taken in the mathematical sense of a subset of a larger category, then it would be a true statement. I imagine Lewis Carroll would see it in this way. 

 

But if it is taken, as I think it often is in normal speech, as implying a subset with a characteristic different from the other members of the larger category, then it would be false.

 

Wonderful thing, language. 

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Some Plants Do Not Have Brains

This may be of interest;

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Audiobook, by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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All biology consists of cellular organisms and considering the fact that cells communicate, is it fair to say that conscious intelligence evolved from cellular communication? 

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