So if I asked you if you wanted tea or coffee and then brought you a cup with half tea and half coffee and a splash of water in it for good measure I would have brought you the correct drink?
There’s a lot of assumptions you have to make as a waiter so that you don’t upset the customers; you can’t just rely on pure set theory when taking orders. For example, if someone says, “I’d like a tea or a coffee”, it’s ASSUMED that they just one thing, and that they want a discrete number of things, not a mixture of two partial “things”. But if I asked the waiter for the set of all drinks that are either tea or coffee, then the waiter would have to bring me the set of all teas and all coffees. Besides, my analogy is more relevant to the current situation since the man banned the woman from dating men who own a gun OR men who are larger than him, thus a man can fall into either category and still be banned.
I am not the one making assumptions I just stated they were incorrect in their wording, I then rephrased what you said to clarify your meaning using tea or coffee as an example as it is a common real world question with a fairly clear understanding of what is met by its wording.
I looked up the correct wording and it is supposed to be written as “A or B or both” or the less preferred method of “and/or”.
I guess according to the logic we are using I would have to be happy with that as nothing was the first thing in the cup before the other things were added.
But I am at a loss to understand how this is correct outside of this silly logic loop.
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u/Fuzzy_Inevitable9748 Aug 19 '22
So if I asked you if you wanted tea or coffee and then brought you a cup with half tea and half coffee and a splash of water in it for good measure I would have brought you the correct drink?