[Tutor] “has a value of True” versus “evaluates true”

[Marc Tompkins]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>
wrote:

> Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org> writes:
>
> > >> To quote: "Let your statement be: 'Yes, yes', or "no, no': anything
> > >> beyond these is of evil."
> > >
> > > "Have you stopped abusing small children yet?"
> >
> > :(
> >
> > I don't understand what your response here means.
>
> He's pointing out that many questions that ask a yes-or-no question
> can't actually be truthfully answered “yes, yes”, nor “no, no”.
>
> It seems you demonstrated his point quite well :-)
>

The classic version, of course, is "Have you stopped beating your wife?
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question>"
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