From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/8430 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Fred E.J. Linton" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Achieving "neither P nor not P" Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 15:08:48 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: "Fred E.J. Linton" NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418653945 17525 80.91.229.3 (15 Dec 2014 14:32:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 14:32:25 +0000 (UTC) To: Vaughan Pratt , categories Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Mon Dec 15 15:32:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp3.mta.ca ([138.73.1.127]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0Wh6-0004HS-S4 for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:32:17 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:46280) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0Wfi-0001Qh-UT; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:30:50 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0Wfi-00054x-F6 for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:30:50 -0400 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:8430 Archived-At: Vaughan Pratt wrote: > Fred, I don't believe you can reliably conflate the propositions "chang= e > 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 reali= ze it limps as badly as the earlier examples adduced in that Bangalore piece= =2E Cheers, -- Fred [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]