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Re: [jboske] Nick on propositionalism &c. (was: RE: Digest Number 134



On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 09:05:41PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> And Rosta scripsit:
> 
> > You drink {pisu'o loi djacu} = part of the mass of water.
> > You do not drink every part of the mass of water.
> 
> No doubt, and I do not drink the whole of it either.  The difference
> between "the whole of" and "every part of" is that the latter is a
> universal quantification over parts, whereas the former does not even
> require that there be any parts.
[...]

Universal quantification over parts does not require that there are
any parts either.

-- 
Jordan DeLong - fracture@hidden.email
lu zo'o loi censa bakni cu terzba le zaltapla poi xagrai li'u
                                     sei la mark. tuen. cusku

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