Re: what most every language is missing :-)

[Pascal Costanza <address@hidden>]

Trevis Rothwell wrote:
> Maybe if instead of giving a definite "true", it would work like
> this:
> 
> 	schrodinger's-cat =? dead -> "hmmm...  could be..."
> 
> and
> 
> 	schrodinger's-cat =? alive -> "hmmm...  could be..."
> 
> Either way, is there a semantic difference between saying "the cat
> might be alive" and "the cat might not be alive"?  Certainly the
> first one sounds more positive and the second one more negative,

This depends on whether you like the particular cat or not. (Or cats in 
general... ;)

> but is there an actual difference?

This depends on how you define "actual difference". ;)


Pascal

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