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Yes, but one last quibble.

Technically, in the phrase "YC startups are breaking the law", there is no clear implication that it is all YC startups.

The phrase simply does not speak on the point of quantity, and is pretty decent 'headline English', which traditionally does away with 'some', 'the', etc, trading specificity for celerity.

However, with the phrasing 'Some YC startups are breaking the law", there is actually additional information being added. Intentionally or not, dang is injecting into the discourse a self-protective disclaimer.

If you're really curious, one can probably work out a symbolic representation of the truth claim being made in any higher-order logic that can express Vagueness (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/vagueness/) and demonstrate how the truth functions differ, but frankly I'm not a grad student anymore, and I'm less excited to do free symbolic logic problems ;D



Now we've reached a deadlock, since as far as I can tell, your interpretation and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33976153 are incompatible.




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