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changoplataneroyesterday at 9:24 PM1 replyview on HN

When there are no pairs, its certainly true that the first element of each pair comes from A. Just like if there are no living dinosaurs its true that all living dinosaurs speak English.


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psYchoticyesterday at 9:43 PM

That helps. Thank you!

I was trying to come up with something to explain why I couldn't see it myself: every element of an empty set of integers is both even and odd. This feels counterintuitive to me, until I flip it around into a question: what is the set of all integers that are both even and odd?

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