Timeline for Why do we use "any X or Y" and "any X and Y" and are there any exception?
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| Feb 23, 2023 at 14:23 | history | edited | ColleenV |
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| Jan 29, 2019 at 23:17 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | moved from User.Id=88427 by developer User.Id=155216 | |
| Jan 28, 2019 at 2:14 | answer | added | user45266 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 28, 2019 at 1:40 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | Note that in symbolic logic (if translating to English), "they won't accept X and they won't accept Y" would be written as "they won't accept X or Y." Similarly, "they won't accept X or they won't accept Y" would be written as "they won't accept X and Y." | |
| Jan 28, 2019 at 1:03 | comment | added | user88427 | and seems to mean X and Y, while or seems to mean X, Y, or X and Y, but in informal speech I think they mean the same, because you can think of it as I won't accept X and I won't accept Y, which is equivalent to or. | |
| Jan 28, 2019 at 0:40 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | It's still the same difference: I won't eat any chicken and waffles versus I won't eat any chicken or waffles. One still always combines the two things, the other may or may not. I won't accept any fact and data means that you won't accept any combination of at least one fact and at least one piece of data. But, in theory, a fact without a piece of data or a piece of data without a fact (if that can make sense) would be fine. | |
| Jan 28, 2019 at 0:33 | comment | added | user88427 | The inclusion of any makes it a bit different, no? | |
| Jan 28, 2019 at 0:19 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | I won't eat chicken and waffles does not mean the same thing as I won't eat chicken or waffles. The former means you won't eat a combination of the the two things. The latter means you won't eat either of them, separately or together. | |
| Jan 28, 2019 at 0:12 | history | asked | user88427 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |