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At 05:09 AM 1/8/03 +0000, And Rosta wrote:
some more responses to pc's other comments: > >The bit about a name having to have a property to be used comes from the > >fact that names are quantifiers (this cuts the grammar size roughly in > >half, eliminating a vast array of duplicates) and quantifiers are all > >restricted (second order relations between sets). Taking the properties > >to be a haeceity was a mistake I remember arguing with (probably) Gaifman > >back when I was studying to be a Nyayika and so a believer in > >visheshas. Even without vishesha, using this as haeceity seems to me a > >bad idea, since it makes transworld comparisons (ctfs like "If Socrates > >were a Seventeenth century Irish washerwoman") impossible to deal with > >naturally Unfortunately this went over my head. If anyone can explain it to me at my level, I'd be interested.
They're in the wiki in the logician's jargon section, under nyayaika and vishesha, and presumably explain what pc is referring to, but I won't pretend to understand.
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