Mountain Lion Finder has no boolean operators?  Where?  When?

Mountain Lion Finder has no boolean operators?  If so, where?  If not, when?  THANKS

Are you talking about the Find window?
If so, just add the criteria you want by clicking the + button. By default, they are Ands. If you want to Or them, or Negate them, hold down the option key and click on the + button.

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