Anchor: We nod to the idea of value-subtraction whenever we fall back on Horace's phrase about laboring to bring forth a mouse, or lament the forests felled to make possible a terrible book, or recollect an experience of working by committee.
Entailed: We agree with the idea of value-subtraction when we complain about trees being cut down to make bad books.
Contradiction: We never agree with the idea of value-subtraction.
Contradiction: There have never been any goldsmiths in Ireland.
Contradiction: A girl with a popsicle.
Contradiction: Two boys in red bathing suits sitting on the side of a pool.
Contradiction: It happens in the middle of the night.