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