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Logical Fallacies on Social Media (translated to Venn form)

October 2nd, 2020, 8:15 pm

Given: A is a superset of B in sense that it has all properties of B plus more.

Is the statement "A is not B" correct?

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Re: Logical Fallacies on Social Media (translated to Venn form)

October 9th, 2020, 4:11 pm

A Sapir-Whorf experiment.
Consider

(1) [$]\displaystyle\lim_{h\to 0} {(f(x+h) - f(x-h))/(2h)}[$]

What goes through the head of a 

pure mathematician
physicist
computer/data scientist
engineer
numerical analyst
applied mathematician

when they look at formula (1)?

Is there only one kind of snow?