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IeyasuMcBob t1_jdlcn8y wrote

And similarly, ancient maps show that Britain was part of the Roman Empire, therefore Italy has a territorial claim to modern England.

Often a good way to find if a statement is logically failed is to attempt to find other analogous situations, see if the same logic holds up, and if it doesn't work out why it doesn't.

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