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All foul balls are dead balls. True.
A fly ball caught over foul territory remains a live ball. True.
Therefore, a fly ball caught over foul territory cannot be a foul ball.
We might call it a "foul ball" in a generic, conversational manner, much the same way that someone calls a batted ball that is tipped back to the screen a "foul tip". But neither is technically correct. From a strictly by-the-book, rules-based definition (which I thought was the whole point behind picking those nasty nits!) a caught fly ball can never be a "foul ball".
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