ChristianKl comments on Open Thread for February 18-24 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 23 February 2014 09:19:31PM 5 points [-]

The antonym of hot is cold.

The negation of hot is not-hot.

Comment author: Tedav 23 February 2014 09:26:22PM 0 points [-]

That is a very good suggestion.

While better than anything I came up with on my own, I'm not sure that antonym is a perfect fit though.

For one, while hot/cold works, I'm not sure that red/green works.

Plus, antonym has a different connotation - it is the antonym of synonym. Antonym implies a word with the "opposite" meaning, not a concept with the "opposite" meaning.

I wouldn't be comfortable talking about the antonym of a concept.

Does anyone know if there are any languages that don't have this problem?