Vacuously True

This one ended up being more sad than funny. And help! I accidentally used the phrase “vacuously true” when chatting with my sister the other day.

“. . . hence S has no limit points, so it is vacuously true that S contains all of its limit points. We thus conclude that S is closed.”

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