Semantic Boolean Analysis of "Resist"

In my previous blog about Rififi, I had initially used the sentence "…I couldn't resist not writing about Rififi." I wondered if I'd made a mistake. Indeed, I had, which I later corrected to "…I couldn't resist writing about Rififi." Using an extra "not" had totally changed the meaning. Here's the Boolean analysis.

• resist writing => I don't write
• not resist writing => I write
• resist not writing => I write
• not resist not writing => I don't write

"Resist" beautifully takes on the role of the Boolean operand NOT. An even number of NOT operands cancel or negate each other. That is, NOT(NOT(X)) = X

And an odd number of NOT operands function as a single NOT. That is, NOT(NOT(NOT(X))) = NOT(X)

Hence,

• I couldn't resist not writing = NOT(NOT(NOT(write))) = NOT(write) => I don't write
• I couldn't resist writing = NOT(NOT(write)) = write => I write

Therefore, I corrected the sentence as I did write about Rififi.

I couldn't resist writing about the semantic Boolean analysis of "Resist!" - Faezal