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wingerlang on Feb 12, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why animals eat psychoactive plants

> Sorry to keep doing this

I guess likewise, because while bun is a type of bread, bread doesn't, again, necessarily have to be a bun.

evincarofautumn on Feb 12, 2015 [–]

Of course not. I’ve been saying for this whole conversation that it’s simply odd, when X is a subset of Y, to use language that implies that X and Y are disjoint sets.

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