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On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, And Rosta wrote: > To summarize the entire discussion so far: > "all of" is certainly importing even if only by irresistible > implicature. > But "ro" does not mean "all of"; it expresses a cardinal number, > the number of broda that there are. If there are 0 broda, then > ro = 0. Hence it is nonimporting. > > The model of quantification favoured by John and xod is valid, > but ro is not the lexical means for implementing it. (I haven't > grouped pc in with John and xod, because I never understood > his reasons for his position -- he seemed to give no reason > but "that's how it is in proper logic".) > > So, John and xod. Are you going to acquiesce?????????? > Everybody else has already voted jordo. What was said here that contradicts what I wrote in "mu"? -- "In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time." -- Edward Abbey