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Re:Show HN: Not Depressing News by SkyMarshal on Friday November 02, 2018 @07:34AM (#18362252)
It’s kind of annoying that this is the top comment. “Not + [Negative Term]” has a distinctly different logical meaning than “[Positve Term]”. It means “everything except [Negative Term], while [Positive Term] means [Only Positive Term] unless otherwise qualified.

The default hypothesis should be that OP deliberately intended the more inclusive “Not + [Negative]”, not that that this was an accidental misnomer.

Re:Show HN: Not Depressing News by aisofteng on Saturday November 03, 2018 @09:39AM (#18370105)
Natural language is not well described at all with analogies to first order logic. Centuries of thought on the philosophy of language have well established this.