The title is too abstract for what I’m writing, so I’ll change it when I come up with a better title.

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It is associated with several concepts - What you thought was one concept is two nested concepts - Both “is X” and “is not X” are compatible. - Liskov Replacement Principle

There are additional stories not mentioned in those.

  • When person 1, who is thinking of X in the narrow sense, is speaking on the assumption that “the elements of X are A”, person 2, who is thinking of X in the broad sense, thinks “1 is speaking on the assumption that ‘the elements of X are A’, which is wrong, let me tell you”.

  • When person 2, who is thinking of X in the broad sense, asserts that there are elements of X that are not A, person 1, who is thinking of X in the narrow sense, thinks, “There is obviously no such thing, person 2 is wrong, let me tell you.”

  • A series of pictures of two people saying different things

  • what is said is complex

  • I’ve been trying to express myself without using natural language as much as possible, but when I do it this time

    • v.s.
  • be composed as follows

  • Hmmm, well, but if you put it together with the diagram, can you figure it out even if you’re not good at math? (Understand?)

relevance - nested set - nesting


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