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At 08:19 PM 11/10/02 +0000, And wrote:
Allan: > I've tried to follow the discussions about logic (ro, import, et al.) and > failed miserably Me too, to some extent. To someone intimidated by the subject I'd suggest any old "logic for dummies" sort of thing. And then James McCawley's _Everything linguists always wanted to know about logic but were ashamed to ask_. Our main gurus are McCawley & Quine -- John is a big Quine fan. (I confess that even tho I'm a big John fan, I haven't yet got round to reading Quine. But I will.)
I'll throw in a pitch for Horn's "A Natural History of Negation" which deals with a lot of these issues in the context of negative sentences of various kinds, and which was critical to the Lojban negation design, wherein a lot of the import/export issues were first debated.
lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@hidden.email Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org