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He's not wrong.

• karmakaze 4y ago
  OT: is 'not wrong' different than 'correct'? I've been curious, is there a non-boolean case, e.g. 'irrelevant', etc? Why do some say 'not wrong' instead of "He's got a valid point." or the like? I suppose in general saying "not X" is weaker than saying "Y" where Y is known to be a subset of not X.
  • twelve40 4y ago
    i think the difference is it might indicate a certain reluctance... cue the big lebowski quote
  • pestatije 4y ago
    You can be right, you can be wrong, and you can be halfway there.
    • karmakaze 4y ago
      So "X" roughly means 100% X, "not Y" means less than 100% Y--short for "not entirely Y".