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Non-Statements

This video presents the same text shown beside it, spoken and on screen. It adds nothing the text does not say.

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Questions, commands, and exclamations are not statements — they have no truth value.

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"Close the door." Not true, not false. Not a statement.

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Rhetorical questions often smuggle in statements: "Who could believe that?" asserts "No one should believe that."