The logic thing is this. If a statement is not alway false then sometimes it is true.
Can't argue with that. But that's irrelevant because, according to the rules of grammar, your statement is simply false. Some, not all, cats are orange. Everybody knows that.
And if two cats were in a place. Those two cats could be all the cats in that place.
Sure, when you modify "cats," as you did there, then you are talking about specific cats. When you modify it with a quantifier like "two," you are referencing specific cats. When you modify it with the demonstrative, "those," you are referencing specific cats, the ones over there. When you use the definite article, "the," you are also referencing specific cats, as previously defined.
But when you use the zero-article, which means no article at all, as in "cats are orange," you are talking about the class of things called "cats," cats in general, all or virtually all of them. And cats in general aren't orange. Only some cats are orange.
This is not a difference of opinion we're having here. This is not a matter of opinion but of the rules of English grammar. There is a correct and an incorrect usage. You can look up any of the terms I used, those in italics, in any grammar glossary.<g>
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