From: "Fred E.J. Linton" <fejlinton@usa.net>
To: Vaughan Pratt <pratt@cs.stanford.edu>, categories <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Achieving "neither P nor not P"
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 15:08:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Y0Wfi-00054x-F6@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
Vaughan Pratt wrote:
> Fred, I don't believe you can reliably conflate the propositions "change
> is not good" and "not(change is good)".
Careful, Vaughan, could you simply be conflating one of those,
and not the other, with "change is bad"? I can't do that, myself.
> In fact I believe you can't reliably conflate them.
Well, that belief's a good reason for you not to "believe you can",
but I don't seem to share that belief yet :-) .
Or perhaps, once the novelty of the example wears off, I'll come to realize
it limps as badly as the earlier examples adduced in that Bangalore piece.
Cheers, -- Fred
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2014-12-14 20:08 Fred E.J. Linton [this message]
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2014-12-13 9:19 Fred E.J. Linton
2014-12-13 23:57 ` Vaughan Pratt
2014-12-15 10:03 ` Steve Vickers
2014-12-15 18:00 ` Vaughan Pratt
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