Interesting logic question

[BrunoThePug]

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Queen: my dear, there is no head injury too small to be ignored!

Barron

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When I read this it sounds like this:

"My dear, there is no head injury minor enough that you should ignore it, it's your head, any injury your head sustains should not be ignored."

Aside from the gun example, are there any others?

[mused01]

try it this way. replace ignore with treated.

no head injury is too small to treated

this means that all head injuries should be treated, correct?

now replace taht with ignore and the statement tells us to ignore all head injuries

[gorie]

no gun is too small to ignore, imo.

[gorie]

i lied. i tried really hard, but they're too small and i can't stop thinking about them.

[Jiganti]

This question really doesn't make any sense.

[Nicholasp27]

logically, it's #2...we only gravitate to #1 because we are used to hearing these illogical statements and because we skew our interpretation towards what we believe the correct one is...we believe the speaker is saying u shouldn't ignore any head injuries, no matter how small, so even tho he constructed the statement illogically, we still interpret it that way

but if u had used this same sentence structure with different words, then #2 woulda won by far...basically, we introduce societal biases into our interpretation

it's kinda like some of the nash game threads; since those are talking about $2 lost if u u go high and lose, people tend to gravitate toward taking the risk...but if we were talking in the billions, many more people would take the guaranteed $2 billion rather than go for $98 billion and get nothing

[mrkilla]

who ever believes option #2 is correct has a head injury themselves

[FocusedOne]

It's like "I could care less." Really? You care a certain amount at this point and could possibly care less? What people mean is, "I couldn't care less." But not many say it that way, and we still know what they mean.

[DcifrThs]

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who ever believes option #2 is correct has a head injury themselves

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so when i say "no gun is too small to be banned" you believe that the statement literally means that i do not want to ban any guns?

Barron

[sebbb]

I think the worst part in this "logic" thread is that people think it's either #1 or #2.

#1 and #2 are not opposites.

FWIW I think the phrase is the opposite of #1, and it would be "not all head injuries need to be treated"