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I like toast. does not fully capture the semantics of I don't not like toast. (Or perhaps more grammatically correct; I don't dislike toast.) "dislike" is not quite the same as "not like". At least in my observation, "dislike" fits between "ambivalent" and "hate": "love" --- "like" --- "ambivalent" --- "dislike" --- "hate" (At least as applies to the degree of liking something.) So, "not like" would be any of "ambivalent", "dislike" or "hate", while "dislike" is a specific (range of) degree of (not) liking.
I understand what you are trying to say, but this was not a good example. In reply to Re^4: Untillian Headache or about the semantic of until
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