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To: stormer
You do realize that natural language is not actually bound by Aristotelian logic, don't you?

My favorite proof of this is the undoubted fact that saying a woman is "not unattractive" is not equivalent to saying she is attractive.

In many contexts in the natural use of English, just as in intuitionistic logic, NOT(NOT P) is weaker than P.

136 posted on 03/12/2013 9:34:31 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: The_Reader_David
I'm sorry, but words mean things. And I disagree with your contention regarding the "not unattractive" woman. It is equivalent with saying she is attractive.
137 posted on 03/12/2013 9:52:00 PM PDT by stormer
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To: The_Reader_David

And not duck is just a duck.


143 posted on 03/13/2013 4:54:12 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: The_Reader_David
In many contexts in the natural use of English, just as in intuitionistic logic, NOT(NOT P) is weaker than P.

In my laptop, NOT(NOT P) = P

145 posted on 03/13/2013 5:04:24 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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