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minus-squareCase@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·11 months agoNo, it isn’t. Unidentified is a lack of identification, not a type of identification. Null != 0. Say I went out into the woods, found a patch of mushrooms. I know some mushrooms are edible. That doesn’t mean the random fungi I found is. So it’s a mushroom (Flying object corollary) but I can’t tell what type it is (unidentified) and thus eating it is probably a bad idea. Could an expert identify it? Probably. And if you pull in a lot of resources, that flying object probably could be identified. That doesn’t mean Bubba on a trip to the outhouse after too much moonshine can identify it, thus from his perspective it is absolutely a UFO. Just because something CAN be identified, does not mean it was identified. But I’m just arguing semantics to kill some time until my shift ends.
No, it isn’t.
Unidentified is a lack of identification, not a type of identification.
Null != 0.
Say I went out into the woods, found a patch of mushrooms.
I know some mushrooms are edible. That doesn’t mean the random fungi I found is.
So it’s a mushroom (Flying object corollary) but I can’t tell what type it is (unidentified) and thus eating it is probably a bad idea.
Could an expert identify it? Probably.
And if you pull in a lot of resources, that flying object probably could be identified.
That doesn’t mean Bubba on a trip to the outhouse after too much moonshine can identify it, thus from his perspective it is absolutely a UFO.
Just because something CAN be identified, does not mean it was identified.
But I’m just arguing semantics to kill some time until my shift ends.