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Re:Equifax securities fraud class action [pdf] by falcor84 on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @10:10AM (#21323746)
Yup. According to formal logic, the answer then is just yes.

p or true => true

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Re:Equifax securities fraud class action [pdf] by throwaway744678 on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @10:23AM (#21323884)
In natural language, "or" generally means "xor" - as is the case here.
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Re:Equifax securities fraud class action [pdf] by pdonis on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @01:04PM (#21326029)
p xor true => true
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Re:Equifax securities fraud class action [pdf] by scarejunba on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @01:22PM (#21326241)
Haha, T ^ T = F, so that isn't quite a syllogism you have there.
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Re:Equifax securities fraud class action [pdf] by pdonis on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @01:26PM (#21326289)
Ah, yes, you're right.
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Re:Equifax securities fraud class action [pdf] by falcor84 on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:20AM (#21324627)
Obviously you're probably right, but I'll just try to troll this a bit. According to the principle of charity (or steelmanning), you should interpret an argument in the strongest possible way, and thus you should in this case interpret the statement with an inclusive or, which is more likely to be true.
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