Re:Show HN: Made this with my daughter to help kids ages 2 t...
by SkyPuncher on Thursday December 26, 2019 @04:56PM
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> It's a real thing.
Most people aren't arguing this. Most people are discussing colloquial understanding of language and discussion. The differences you are arguing are important in a highly specialized area of math and science.
It feels like you're arguing whether an object is a Boeing 737 or an Airbus A320 when the important point is an airplane is not a car.
Re:Show HN: Made this with my daughter to help kids ages 2 t...
by guerrilla on Thursday December 26, 2019 @08:42PM
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> The differences you are arguing are important in a highly specialized area of math and science.
Actually, I think they're arguing that it would be useful if more people understood this. In addition, the point of the game was to teach logic, not a colloquial understanding of language, which every child gets growing up anyway.
Re:Show HN: Made this with my daughter to help kids ages 2 t...
by alisey on Thursday December 26, 2019 @06:03PM
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This reminds me of vacuous truth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuous_truth).
I was recently writing a function that returns early if all items in a list meet a certain condition. It was interesting to think about what should happen if that list is empty.
This is not po-tay-to po-tah-to, people. It's a real thing.