Double negation

From	ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
Newsgroups	alt.usage.english
Subject	Double negation
Date	2026-05-30 10:57 +0000
Organization	Stefan Ram
Message-ID	<negation-20260530115223@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> (permalink)

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  The meaning of "double negation" as in "We don't need no education"
  often is negation. But recently I read an example where it seems to
  be actually meant to be double negation in the logical sense:

  Seemingly from a transcript:

|. . . The more important thing is what it doesn't say.
|It doesn't say you're not allowed to automate the kill chain.
|So you're allowed to do that? You are not not allowed to do that.

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Double negation ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-05-30 10:57 +0000
  Re: Double negation "HenHanna" <HenHanna@Posting.from.CsiPh> - 2026-05-30 19:27 +0000
    Re: Double negation The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-05-30 16:41 -0400
      Re: Double negation Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-05-31 11:49 +1000
        Re: Double negation Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-05-31 05:21 +0200
      Re: Double negation Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-05-31 11:31 +0300
    Re: Double negation  -- (Conrad's  Triple negative) "HenHanna" <HenHanna@Posting.from.CsiPh> - 2026-05-31 00:13 +0000
  Re: Double negation Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2026-05-31 09:00 +1200

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