Now, the question is, "does 'do not meet their own dating criteria'" mean "within the set of their dating criteria, there exists at least one criterion which they do not meet", or does it mean, "within the set of their own dating criteria, there exists NO criterion which they meet."
If the former statement, the answer is obviously "yes". Assume, for instance, that you are a heterosexual male, and the potential person is a heterosexual female. You do not meet your own dating criteria, she does not meet her own dating criteria, therefore you both exhibit the quality of not meeting your own dating criteria, and therefore you meet each others' dating criteria.
If, however, the statement is that you may meet NONE of your own dating criteria, well, you DO meet the criteria of not dating anyone who meets your own criteria, and therefore, someone else who shares that trait would NOT date you, and vice versa.
It was really only in flux for about 3 minutes, just apparently the wrong 3. I was trying to clarify ambiguous language which I had framed with certain original assumptions built in, e.g. "dates only X" meant "will date any within X and no others", as an implicit IFF.
I really hadn't initially been as logically rigorous as possible, because I thought the informal statement would be sufficiently reminiscent of Russell's. Ah, well.
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Now, the question is, "does 'do not meet their own dating criteria'" mean "within the set of their dating criteria, there exists at least one criterion which they do not meet", or does it mean, "within the set of their own dating criteria, there exists NO criterion which they meet."
If the former statement, the answer is obviously "yes". Assume, for instance, that you are a heterosexual male, and the potential person is a heterosexual female. You do not meet your own dating criteria, she does not meet her own dating criteria, therefore you both exhibit the quality of not meeting your own dating criteria, and therefore you meet each others' dating criteria.
If, however, the statement is that you may meet NONE of your own dating criteria, well, you DO meet the criteria of not dating anyone who meets your own criteria, and therefore, someone else who shares that trait would NOT date you, and vice versa.
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I really hadn't initially been as logically rigorous as possible, because I thought the informal statement would be sufficiently reminiscent of Russell's. Ah, well.