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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:30:32 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 08:42:43 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
<utrrg3$13cl2$1@dont-email.me>:

> On 3/24/2024 10:23 PM, vallor wrote:
>> On 24 Mar 2024 10:27:18 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote
>> in <66000006$0$5287$426a74cc@news.free.fr>:
>> 
>>> Le 23-03-2024, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> Because I'm curious.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure I really understand.
>> 
>> I'm not incurious.
> 
>   C AND  I = F
>   C AND !I = T
> !C AND  I = T
> !C AND !I = F

A "tetralemma of curiosity"?  What does it mean?

Meanwhile, what about Linux?

ObLinux: the dict(1) command:

$ dict incurious
3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incurious \In*cu"ri*ous\, a. [L. incuriosus: cf. F. incurieux.
     See {In-} not, and {Curious}.]
     Not curious or inquisitive; without care for or interest in;
     inattentive; careless; negligent; heedless.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Carelessnesses and incurious deportments toward their
           children.                                --Jer. Taylor.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  incurious
      adj 1: showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or
             natural curiosity; "strangely incurious about the cause
             of the political upheaval surrounding them" [ant:
             {curious}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thesaurus]:

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "incurious":
     absent, absentminded, abstracted, aloof, apathetic, ataractic,
     blase, bored, careless, casual, detached, devil-may-care,
     disinterested, dispassionate, disregardant, disregardful, distant,
     distracted, distrait, distraught, easygoing, heedless, impassive,
     inadvertent, inattentive, indifferent, inexcitable, inobservant,
     insouciant, lackadaisical, listless, mindless, negligent,
     nonchalant, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pococurante, preoccupied,
     reckless, regardless, remote, stolid, thoughtless, turned-off,
     unanxious, unconcerned, undiscriminating, unheedful, unheeding,
     uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unmarking, unmindful,
     unnoticing, unnoting, unobservant, unobserving, unremarking,
     unsolicitous, withdrawn

 _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Linux is an opportunity for the curious: if you want to know why
the OS acts in a certain way, it's nice to be able to refer
to the source code of the running kernel.

(Let me know if you'd like an example.)

-- 
-v