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  • Asked on December 24, 2021 in Meaning.

    At hand means “What’s in front of us right now” i.e. our focus is on inward movement. Which is the next thing on the agenda?

    At issue means ‘what’s causing trouble’, i.e. something causing the wrong outcome. e the difficult thing.

    If some issue is causing trouble now, it’s the matter at issue — you don’t really want to say the issue at issue, because that draws attention to the phrase instead of the problem.

    To everyone who watches me, it’s the matter at hand or the issue at hand. And if it’s the next thing on the agenda, it’s the matter at hand or the issue at hand. Both ideas you choose work and they mean the

    same thing.

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  • Asked on December 24, 2021 in Meaning.

    None too dissimilar means practically nothing.

    All three words are negatives (in English for short) Is the link between NPI and every other NPI hardly spelled out?

    None is a negative existential quantifier meaning not one any or not all. (x).? s(x).? = (x).

    Too, though was a quantificational adverb with complex syntax. If something is too P then it is P to cause or cause some negative outcome. Logically (x) (Degree(P(x)) (Degree(P(x)) S)..

    Dissimilar is a symmetric negative predicate with two arguments — either of which can be subject if the other is object, which is not the norm. Is there any overt negative that declares that the degree of parallelity is low. I don’t bother with the logic here; the point is, it’s complicated.

    What did this imply, and could anyone type of phrase in the same way? Why does hypernegation are inevitable?

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  • Asked on December 24, 2021 in Meaning.

    None too dissimilar means practically nothing.

    All three words are negatives (in English for short) Is the link between NPI and every other NPI hardly spelled out?

    None is a negative existential quantifier meaning not one any or not all. (x).? s(x).? = (x).

    Too, though was a quantificational adverb with complex syntax. If something is too P then it is P to cause or cause some negative outcome. Logically (x) (Degree(P(x)) (Degree(P(x)) S)..

    Dissimilar is a symmetric negative predicate with two arguments — either of which can be subject if the other is object, which is not the norm. Is there any overt negative that declares that the degree of parallelity is low. I don’t bother with the logic here; the point is, it’s complicated.

    What did this imply, and could anyone type of phrase in the same way? Why does hypernegation are inevitable?

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  • Asked on December 24, 2021 in Meaning.

    None too dissimilar means practically nothing.

    All three words are negatives (in English for short) Is the link between NPI and every other NPI hardly spelled out?

    None is a negative existential quantifier meaning not one any or not all. (x).? s(x).? = (x).

    Too, though was a quantificational adverb with complex syntax. If something is too P then it is P to cause or cause some negative outcome. Logically (x) (Degree(P(x)) (Degree(P(x)) S)..

    Dissimilar is a symmetric negative predicate with two arguments — either of which can be subject if the other is object, which is not the norm. Is there any overt negative that declares that the degree of parallelity is low. I don’t bother with the logic here; the point is, it’s complicated.

    What did this imply, and could anyone type of phrase in the same way? Why does hypernegation are inevitable?

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  • Asked on December 24, 2021 in Meaning.

    None too dissimilar means practically nothing.

    All three words are negatives (in English for short) Is the link between NPI and every other NPI hardly spelled out?

    None is a negative existential quantifier meaning not one any or not all. (x).? s(x).? = (x).

    Too, though was a quantificational adverb with complex syntax. If something is too P then it is P to cause or cause some negative outcome. Logically (x) (Degree(P(x)) (Degree(P(x)) S)..

    Dissimilar is a symmetric negative predicate with two arguments — either of which can be subject if the other is object, which is not the norm. Is there any overt negative that declares that the degree of parallelity is low. I don’t bother with the logic here; the point is, it’s complicated.

    What did this imply, and could anyone type of phrase in the same way? Why does hypernegation are inevitable?

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  • Asked on December 23, 2021 in Meaning.

    None too dissimilar means practically nothing.

    All three words are negatives (in English for short) Is the link between NPI and every other NPI hardly spelled out?

    None is a negative existential quantifier meaning not one any or not all. (x).? s(x).? = (x).

    Too, though was a quantificational adverb with complex syntax. If something is too P then it is P to cause or cause some negative outcome. Logically (x) (Degree(P(x)) (Degree(P(x)) S)..

    Dissimilar is a symmetric negative predicate with two arguments — either of which can be subject if the other is object, which is not the norm. Is there any overt negative that declares that the degree of parallelity is low. I don’t bother with the logic here; the point is, it’s complicated.

    What did this imply, and could anyone type of phrase in the same way? Why does hypernegation are inevitable?

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  • Asked on December 23, 2021 in Meaning.

    None too dissimilar means practically nothing.

    All three words are negatives (in English for short) Is the link between NPI and every other NPI hardly spelled out?

    None is a negative existential quantifier meaning not one any or not all. (x).? s(x).? = (x).

    Too, though was a quantificational adverb with complex syntax. If something is too P then it is P to cause or cause some negative outcome. Logically (x) (Degree(P(x)) (Degree(P(x)) S)..

    Dissimilar is a symmetric negative predicate with two arguments — either of which can be subject if the other is object, which is not the norm. Is there any overt negative that declares that the degree of parallelity is low. I don’t bother with the logic here; the point is, it’s complicated.

    What did this imply, and could anyone type of phrase in the same way? Why does hypernegation are inevitable?

    • 262382 views
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    • 97144 votes
  • Asked on December 23, 2021 in Meaning.

    None too dissimilar means practically nothing.

    All three words are negatives (in English for short) Is the link between NPI and every other NPI hardly spelled out?

    None is a negative existential quantifier meaning not one any or not all. (x).? s(x).? = (x).

    Too, though was a quantificational adverb with complex syntax. If something is too P then it is P to cause or cause some negative outcome. Logically (x) (Degree(P(x)) (Degree(P(x)) S)..

    Dissimilar is a symmetric negative predicate with two arguments — either of which can be subject if the other is object, which is not the norm. Is there any overt negative that declares that the degree of parallelity is low. I don’t bother with the logic here; the point is, it’s complicated.

    What did this imply, and could anyone type of phrase in the same way? Why does hypernegation are inevitable?

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  • Asked on December 23, 2021 in Meaning.

    None too dissimilar means practically nothing.

    All three words are negatives (in English for short) Is the link between NPI and every other NPI hardly spelled out?

    None is a negative existential quantifier meaning not one any or not all. (x).? s(x).? = (x).

    Too, though was a quantificational adverb with complex syntax. If something is too P then it is P to cause or cause some negative outcome. Logically (x) (Degree(P(x)) (Degree(P(x)) S)..

    Dissimilar is a symmetric negative predicate with two arguments — either of which can be subject if the other is object, which is not the norm. Is there any overt negative that declares that the degree of parallelity is low. I don’t bother with the logic here; the point is, it’s complicated.

    What did this imply, and could anyone type of phrase in the same way? Why does hypernegation are inevitable?

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  • Asked on December 23, 2021 in Meaning.

    None too dissimilar means practically nothing.

    All three words are negatives (in English for short) Is the link between NPI and every other NPI hardly spelled out?

    None is a negative existential quantifier meaning not one any or not all. (x).? s(x).? = (x).

    Too, though was a quantificational adverb with complex syntax. If something is too P then it is P to cause or cause some negative outcome. Logically (x) (Degree(P(x)) (Degree(P(x)) S)..

    Dissimilar is a symmetric negative predicate with two arguments — either of which can be subject if the other is object, which is not the norm. Is there any overt negative that declares that the degree of parallelity is low. I don’t bother with the logic here; the point is, it’s complicated.

    What did this imply, and could anyone type of phrase in the same way? Why does hypernegation are inevitable?

    • 262382 views
    • 18 answers
    • 97144 votes