Don't Refute Absolutes

The story has several forms of animal, but Doug Wilson says it like this:

Abraham Lincoln once asked how many legs a sheep would have if we called the tail a leg. “Five,” came the answer. No, Lincoln replied, it doesn’t matter what we call it, a sheep will have four legs regardless of what we say.

Honest Abe was a straight shooter. He seems like the sort of fella a guy could name his kid after.