• sbv
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    1 year ago

    I think it’s continuity, like a spectrum. At one end is thin ice, the other is thick ice. etc

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I think that’s wrong. Since they are discrete and not a continuum. Since there are only two extremes.

      If his new relationships were true it would make the opposite idioms consistent with their non-opposite counterparts. Kind of the same concept as a contrapositive proposition, i.e. ‘if A then B’ implies ‘if not A then not B’.