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> I am not certain that I wouldn't pick Trump over Cruz, for example. The negatives sprinkled throughout that sentence don't make it clearer. isn't it just:
by PantaloonFlames 10y ago
> I am not certain that I wouldn't pick Trump over Cruz, for example.
The negatives sprinkled throughout that sentence don't make it clearer.
isn't it just:
"I would pick Trump over Cruz"?
- thebooktocome 10y agoNo; the evidential "I am not certain" is not logically exclusive with its negation, "I am certain". So the principle of double negation does not apply. Brought to you by a partially wasted youth as a philosophy major.