conditional Inuit

victor steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Dec 28 20:05:39 UTC 2011


I believe I took that into account. Read the statement again and you will
see that it is not the inverse.

VS-)

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at ameritech.net>wrote:

> A conditional and its inverse are not logically equivalent.
>
> Neal
>
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> So. let me get this straight--if it is /not/ true that Eskimos have
> >> hundreds of words for snow, then Jessica Chastain /may not have/ "at
> >> least a hundred different worried, puzzled, what-the-hell-is-going-on
> >> expressions". Good to know.
>

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