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English usage and grammar
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Or, xor
"Xor" is exclusive, which means it is one, the other, but not both. In logic, an inclusive disjunction would be "or." The problem is people don't use xor and or; the use of just "or" makes things difficult to understand sometimes.
I understand that xor is the exclusive or. That means that or is indeed the inclusive or.
We already have the inclusive or, people just don’t use it properly. The beauty of language is that we can append inclusive or exclusive to make it clear.
And not neither. False xor false == false