re: and/or?

[nosnivel <nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il>]

Geoff writes:
> The three common meanings are "A and B, but _maybe 
> not_ both", "A or B, but also maybe _both_", and 
> "A, B, or both".  See the problem?

No...  Do you have examples?  To me, they seem all
to mean the same thing, and to mean it more precisely
than a bare "and" that expects us to intuit "or 
either one of them" or a bare "or" that expects
us to intuit "or both of them together".

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