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Re: Use of "and/or"

Subject: Re: Use of "and/or"
From: Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:52:08 -0500




Gene Kim-Eng wrote:

By who? In my experience, it is a commonly used term to indicate that one or all of a given set of conditions may apply.
I wouldn't use it in an advertising brochure, but it has a definite
meaning when used judiciously. Then again, I just got finished
telling someone else on the list that I was a relic. :)



It is used commonly but not correctly. "Or" is inclusive. "A or B" includes the case A and not B, the case B and not A, and the case A and B. As this is fundamental in the precise language of symbolic logic, it follows that someone attempting to use language precisely (as lawyers and engineers often claim to do) should be more than satisfied with just plain ol' "or."

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