How is it, then, with other of Dummett's examples of tone? The passage quoted from The Logical Basis of Metaphysics in §2.5 contains eight more pairs: "dead"—"deceased", "woman"—"lady", "vous"—"tu", "rabbit"—"bunny", "womb"—"uterus", "enemy"—"foe", and "politician"—'statesman". Dummett's inclusion of this last pair strikes me as rather surprising; perhaps it is merely overly hasty. The difference in meaning between "politician" and 'statesman" is sufficiently large-grained to effect a difference in truth and falsity. To quote Henry Adams, "They were statesmen not politicians; they guided public opinion, but were little guided by it".