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Correct.

Common source of confusion/trickery/divergence between ordinary language and formal logic.

Edit: Logically speaking, the following two are equivalent:

They married and had kids.

They had kids and married.




Also I think sometimes children will realize a logic gap there and so they will try this funny trickery where they will make statements like these, which technically are true, but imply something totally otherwise to others. Which I find very interesting and kind of speaks to ability and inventiveness of children to think outside the box. Parents may find it annoying or dismiss it, but I think it is great.


vacuous truths are indeed a useful form of half-truth if you are aiming to deceive.


> Edit: Logically speaking, the following two are equivalent:

Depends on your logical system! There are temporal logics to allow one to capture logically the difference between the two.




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