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Re:If-then-else had to be invented by chalst on Sunday December 13, 2020 @12:24PM (#25408176)
How would you distribute "Jack and Jill play together."? If you start introducing prepositions, then your theory of "and"-expansion is going to get quite complex as it covers more and more cases.
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Re:If-then-else had to be invented by XorNot on Sunday December 13, 2020 @09:54PM (#25413016)
Isn't this basically proper nouns implicitly creating a set of size 1?
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