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Invent Yourself scripsit: > In terms of the 2 cases being fictional worlds about which I might read, I > see a difference. I can imagine the chocolate but not the 4 = 5. This is > something that con men and fiction authors should keep in mind, so they > can craft realistic works. But in terms of reality, both cases are > provably false; 0 in the boolean sense. Granted. But President McGovern 1972-76 is a world you can reason about usefully, whereas the world where "true" and "false" have the same referent isn't. -- "No, John. I want formats that are actually John Cowan useful, rather than over-featured megaliths that http://www.ccil.org/~cowan address all questions by piling on ridiculous http://www.reutershealth.com internal links in forms which are hideously jcowan@hidden.email over-complex." --Simon St. Laurent on xml-dev