* Re: WHY ARE WE CONCERNED?
@ 2006-03-31 9:18 Peter McBURNEY
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From: Peter McBURNEY @ 2006-03-31 9:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Peter Selinger wrote:
>
> "French lawmakers, for example, gave preliminary support this month to
> a measure that would require the company to open the iPod to play
> music purchased from any online music service; currently, songs
> purchased from iTunes can be played only on iPods."
>
> New York Times, 2006/03/29, "Apple vs. Apple in Dispute Over Trademark"
>
> This is of course not a logical contradiction; but I would be very
> surprised if it is what the writer really meant to say. Sadly, most
> readers probably won't know the difference one way or the other.
>
I am not sure that mathematicians should cast stones here, given the decades
it took for the ambiguities of First-Order Logic to be recognized, and then
rectified with Independence-Friendly Logic.
-- Peter McBurney
University of Liverpool, UK.
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