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Fuschia tude
Dec 26, 2004

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2019

LeftistMuslimObama posted:

Nope. People use it to mean that, but logically if I can have thing a or thing b, I can also have thing a and thing b. You have to specify that I can't have both if that's what you intend.

Nobody in real life is going to care about that, but in a formal debate or a philosophy paper or something you'll get nailed for it because or is does not denote exclusivity of the statements on either side of it.

But Small White Dragon didn't say "a or b", he said "either a or b". The word "either" implies exactly that exclusivity property that you're talking about, in English.

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