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Jorge Llambias scripsit: > The problem with that is that "the three men" in the > second part is not always a well defined set. Suppose you > say "It is not the case that three men are inside > the house. Two of the three men ..." Of which three men??? Fair enough, although stuff under negation is funky. Perhaps part about the two men is under the negation too? -- If you have ever wondered if you are in hell, John Cowan it has been said, then you are on a well-traveled http://www.ccil.org/~cowan road of spiritual inquiry. If you are absolutely http://www.reutershealth.com sure you are in hell, however, then you must be jcowan@hidden.email on the Cross Bronx Expressway. --Alan Feur, NYTimes, 2002-09-20