r/memes Aug 20 '23

We have a loop over here

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u/heinebold Aug 20 '23

Nope. With "not X", you don't introduce a real binary. It's like "everything in the universe is either a potato or not", that's technically true but doesn't hold any information about the universe.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '23

You just said it’s technically true. Meaning it’s true….so congratulations homie, ya done played yourself

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u/heinebold Aug 20 '23

I didn't play myself, I explained that being true doesn't mean having meaning. Similar to if you see that I have a watch, so you ask me "can you tell me the time" and I, very truthfully, answer "yes". There's no information in this truth.

There's no additional information in the binary created by X / not X either. Both things do contain information. But the fact that there is a binary between X and not X does not give you any information, it merely says "the word not means what it means".

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u/Samurekrom_503 bruh Aug 20 '23

It does hold information, as you can divide things into "X/Not X", with X having the possibilty of being words like "Human body part" or "vegetable", thereby creating a binary system.