re: and/or?

Subject: re: and/or?
From: nosnivel <nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:42:45 -0700 (PDT)

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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