Normal human speech isn’t literal. Just because someone failed to include qualifiers like “most” or “as a rule” doesn’t mean that a statement which is without such qualifiers should be read as unqualified. “No one” as used by actual human beings in this context doesn’t literally mean “zero”.
In which sense are you using the word “literally” in your posts?
Notice the difference in two sentences. One of them is correct and the other one is wrong.
“No one” doesn’t usually mean “a number of people which is equal to zero”. ”No one” doesn’t literally mean “a number of people which is equal to zero”.
Actually, it does. Literally.
Normal human speech isn’t literal. Just because someone failed to include qualifiers like “most” or “as a rule” doesn’t mean that a statement which is without such qualifiers should be read as unqualified. “No one” as used by actual human beings in this context doesn’t literally mean “zero”.
In which sense are you using the word “literally” in your posts?
Notice the difference in two sentences. One of them is correct and the other one is wrong.
“No one” doesn’t usually mean “a number of people which is equal to zero”.
”No one” doesn’t literally mean “a number of people which is equal to zero”.
You are misparsing the sentence. “No one” doesn’t mean “zero”, as it would mean if taken in a literal manner.
You want to rephrase that sentence, as it’s very easy to misparse the way Lumifer did.