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On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, John Cowan wrote: > Invent Yourself scripsit: > > > You intend to count propositions? Are you sure that they are countable? > > Prepositions, if not ineffable, must be encodable as sentences, and sentences > are countable, if you exclude sentences of infinite length. In Lojban, the > grammar allows such sentences, but we are not able in general to determine > their truth conditions. A bunch of sentences are countable but little can be deduced from that number, as Jordan hopes to, because it's trivial to alter that number with grammatical rearrangements. -- // if (!terrorist) // ignore (); // else collect_data ();