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School is just one simplification after the other (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 9 months ago by illectrility to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

That's true in a very literal sense, but there's a whole branch of linguistics called pragmatics that's concerned with things like why it's usually safe to conclude that when someone says they have four apples, they mean that have only four apples. When there's any ambiguity I talk like a mathematician and use phrases like "at least four apples" or "exactly four apples".