The student could take which one of the following groups of courses during the summer school session?

athompson on July 7, 2021

Difference between "is not" and "cannot"

For rules in logic games, is there ever any relevant difference between rules that state, for example, "If A is in, B is not in" and "If A is in, B cannot be in"? Are we always to take the contrapositive of "B cannot be in" to be the same as "B is not in"? Couldn't you reason that the opposite of "B cannot be in" is "B can be in"? And then saying that "B can be in" wouldn't be definitive enough to make the same inference as "B is in"

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Emil-Kunkin on April 25, 2023

Nope, they mean the same thing. They both define one thing as being mutually exclusive with another.