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

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Comment author: shminux 24 February 2014 08:18:15PM *  0 points [-]

Often when people want to emphasize that what they mean is not the complement of the referent, they say "diametrically opposed" or "direct opposite" or "antipode": "the complement of hot [in the set of all temperature perceptions] is not-hot, but the direct opposite of hot is cold".

Comment author: Tedav 24 February 2014 08:32:05PM 0 points [-]

The complement of hot is not-red?

Comment author: shminux 24 February 2014 08:36:46PM -1 points [-]

Thanks, fixed :)