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Isn't "alternative" commutative?
by awestroke 3y ago
Isn't "alternative" commutative?
- wakamoleguy 3y agoCommutative means that changing the order of the operands yields the same result. Ex: a+b = b+a. In that way, "alternative" is (mostly) commutative, but there are exceptions: Amazon is an alternative to a local bookstore, but a local bookstore is not necessary an alternative to Amazon. The transitive property implies that if a=b and b=c, then a=c. "Alternatives" are also (mostly) transitive. A counterexample would be that Slack is an alternative to IRC, and IRC is an alternative to Slack, but Slack is not an alternative to Slack!
- awestroke 3y agoAmazon is also not necessarily an alternative to a local bookstore