• AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      Actually yes. As long as the group only acts in a way that all members approve of, and members are free to leave or join.

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          1 month ago

          Are “Iffs” a thing? I’ve been missing out.

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            1 month ago

            iff is the shorthand for “if and only if”.

            If you said “if it is a horse it has hooves” you can infer “all horses have hooves” but not that “all hooved creatures are horses”.

            Otoh if you said “iff a polygon has 3 sides, it is a triangle” you can infer that all polygons that have 3 sides are triangles and that there are no other ways to make triangles.

            edit: This was typed by sleep deprived me, I tried to fix it.

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                  30 days ago

                  Well I mostly was already familiar with “if and only if” terminology from some math class many years ago. So once you said iff stands for “if and only if” I didn’t really look too close at the rest of your comment because I felt like I already understood.