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by cadabrabra 130 days ago
It’s a common confusion, often subconsciously deployed in the context of trying to cope with the possibility of something undesirable turning out to be true.
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pfdietz 130 days ago
It's also important to distinguish "I don't believe X" from "I believe not-X".

English is poorly suited to expressing this distinction.

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buttstuff69420 130 days ago
No. What happened here is you confused semantics for logic.
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