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The bit that went over my head was "names are quantifiers". The rest I didn't understand, but not for a lack of a vague handle on the terminology. --And. >>> lojbab@hidden.email 01/08/03 03:44pm >>> 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. 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: jboske-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/