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> On a cheery note, I see a whole hadful of things turning up here and
> in need of some sorting. So, around the claim "The horse is running"
> there are at least
> 1. a truth value (possibly different from {T, F}) (jei) and comments
> 2. a quantitative evaluation (I find the Olympic system easiest
> here, but lots of others work) (ni)
> 3. a qualitative comment (the ones around so far -- presumably
> related to 1 and/or 2 -- are things like "well" and "really badly")
> (the other {ka})
> 4. truth functors on the basic sentence: "really running," "barely
> running," "not quite running," that take different, but related truth
> values to the original and may even be related loosely to 2 and 3
> 5. Something nebulous that both And and xorxes talk about --and
> which may be one of the above obscurely put (or several of the above
> freely intermingled).
I think I'm talking about 1, 2 and 4, specifically I'm suggesting
that a single family of truth functors can simultaneously handle
1 & 2. Not that it has to be that way, but it's attractive to have
that way as an option.
--And.