The Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll
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------------------- | 1 | 0 | | _____|_____ | | | | | | | | | 0 | | | | | | | ------------------- Once more: how shall we interpret this, with regard to x and y? ------------------- | 0 | 1 | | _____|_____ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------- This tells us, as to the xy-Square, that ONE of its compartments is 'empty'. But this information is quite useless, as there is no mark in the OTHER compartment. If the other compartment happened to be 'empty' too, the Square would be 'empty': and, if it happened to be 'occupied', the Square would be 'occupied'. So, as we do not know WHICH is the case, we can say nothing about THIS Square. The other Square, the xy'-Square, we know (as in the previous |
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