• over_clox@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Also, double negative…

    Anti-trans ban? That’s a double negative, when cancelling our the negatives, that means it’s pro-trans.

    Sorry but I think with the mathematical part of my brain. Throw two negatives into a sentence and they cancel out and become a positive.

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      5 months ago

      mathematical part of my brain

      There’s no such thing. It’s just a gooey mass of billions of randomly firing neurons that can coalesce into patterns of signals and “brute force” answers to math problems. We are not logic machines with well defined mechanisms of functionality like a computer. We just fake it very well. That’s why we can make mistakes. A well built computer does not make mistakes.

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      5 months ago

      Anti-trans works as an adjective in this sentence, so it is a ban that is anti-trans in nature, not a ban of anti-trans behaviour.

      Your commiting a logical falacy believing that a double negative automatically means the same as no negative. “You are not allowed to not run” doesn’t mean that you are merely allowed to run, it means you must run.

      Buuut again, I assume your logic means the downvotes to your comment acts like a negation to your comment and so I’m not sure what you meant.