Why doesn't (apply or [true false]) work in Clojure?

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Published on 2010-06-03T20:31:48Z Indexed on 2010/06/03 20:34 UTC
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From what I understand about apply, it unpacks a list and turns the elements into arguments for a function.

I see that (apply + [1 2 3]) works as expected, i.e: it's equivalent to (+ 1 2 3).

Why then is (apply or [true false]) invalid? Isn't it equivalent to (or true false) ?

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