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Re:Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:16PM (#34990696)
Its not doing X to Y, its doing X to Z which is synonymous to Y is…a contradiction.

IF Z is a synonym for Y, doing X to Z is doing X to Y.

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Re:Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry by Zurrrrr on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:31PM (#34990787)
Trying to map natural language statements to formal logic doesn't work well, unless you make a ton of assumptions as you have here...and then it still doesn't work well.
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