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At 11:58 AM 12/28/02 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> ... Remind me why {mi djica loi mikce} was rejected as a general
> solution? Because whatever it was sinks this too, I think...
Because you are not willing to settle for sundry unattached doctor parts.
IOW, some Doctor-Substance will not do.
Do sundry doctor parts have the Gricean-implied properties of doctors? How about mi djica loi mikce poi simsa lo'e mikce?
> The Nick-tuple may well be just a set. Indeed, I think so. Though jbosets are modeled on mathsets, they have properties which are by no means mathematical, simply because they are outside the domain of mathematics, and in natlangs only mathematicians talk of sets. E.g. laws are enacted by sets of legislators.
I don't think so, since I am inclined to the original mathematical meaning for the set descriptor, since that is why it was added (and as pc noted, it is also used by scientists and logicians - and probably computer programmers, which constitutes a large portion of our current constituency)
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