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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Whether or not

Many people find "whether or not" redundant. Grice did. His father did, too.

A sentences like

"The editor will decide whether to delete the redundant phrase"

cannot, however, be easily substituted, as Grice and his father thought, with "if".

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