nonswan

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noun

That which is not a swan.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nounnonswan (plural nonswans)

plural nonswans

  1. That which is not a swan.

    This is not translated "~s," rather, it asserts the existence of at least one nonswan, and thus becomes "~Sa."

    1968, Henry Ehlers, Logic by way of set theory, page 294
    1 more example

    Thus, faced with three instances of swans flying west to east and a nonswan (say a crow) flying east to west, an accurate inductive generalization (from this set of four instances) would be that swans fly west to east[…]

    1991, Derek Partridge, A New Guide to Artificial Intelligence, page 393

Origin

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