army1987 comments on Standard and Nonstandard Numbers - Less Wrong

31 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 December 2012 03:23AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (83)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: [deleted] 22 December 2012 04:50:00PM 0 points [-]

The first likely doesn't apply here, as it's not used in a negation or question.

It doesn't, but I was hypothesizing that the reason why on the first read it sounded to you as though it did was the negation (“no group”) before it.