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> Go find a mathematician and discuss this matter with him. Tell him what you told |
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> me, and he will slap you with a large frying pan. |
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Here's a non-programming example, to make things clearer. |
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It's a sunny Sunday, and Fred is watching a labourer trying to build a |
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house with a shovel. An hour later, Jane comes along and asks Fred |
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whether the labourer has built any houses *with* that shovel. |
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Fred does not say: |
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"Hang on! With *that* shovel? I dunno. Possibly. Who can say?" |
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Fred does say: |
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"Dudess, that labourer hasn't built any houses." |
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Implicit in that is: |
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"Dudess, regardless of the building tool, no houses have been built." |
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