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Adam Raizen scripsit: > > de'i li 2002-11-09 ti'u li 23:05:00 la'o zoi. John Cowan .zoi cusku di'e > > >Jordan DeLong scripsit: > > > >> I think A-E-I+O+ is what we need for this, to keep the system > >> consistent. I agree with you and xod, that, as Nick was suggesting, > >> we really can ignore this as in normal conversation it's really a > >> "na'i" to talk about things which don't exist, despite being logically > >> true. > > > >I agree as well, except I call it logically false rather than true. > >A trivial distinction, he said airily. > > How about "Some planets are inhabited by humans" and "Some US > presidents are male". Are those logically false too? No, I reckon them true, because they mean "There is at least one planet such that it is inhabited by humans" and "There is at least one US president who is male". "Some female US presidents are blond" is false by the same standard, for it means "There is at least one female US president who is blond", and there isn't. -- "No, John. I want formats that are actually John Cowan useful, rather than over-featured megaliths that http://www.ccil.org/~cowan address all questions by piling on ridiculous http://www.reutershealth.com internal links in forms which are hideously jcowan@hidden.email over-complex." --Simon St. Laurent on xml-dev