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Wednesday, Aug 06

🙃 Confused

Negation

Hi! My question is about the Question #5 on Skill Builder - Negation 3 in the Foundations module----

The original sentence is: "Chess is the most appropriate analogy to reporting on political campaigns."

I understand that a proper negation would be something like: "Either something else is a more appropriate analogy for reporting on political campaigns than chess is, or something else ties with chess as being the most appropriate." or "It is not the case that chess is the most appropriate analogy to reporting on political campaigns."

However, I was wondering why wouldn't a simpler negation like "Chess is not the most appropriate analogy to reporting on political campaigns" be sufficient? Is there a meaningful difference between the two, or do they functionally mean the same thing in formal logic?

Thank you so much for your time and help!

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  • Sunday, Aug 10

    @yasamham My prof says they are the same! YAYYY

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  • Wednesday, Aug 06

    In my understanding the second one is really similar to your answer, and "It is not the case" functions the same as "not"? But maybe someone else disagrees?

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