From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Dec 20 15:32:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 514CE37B416; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:32:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fBKNWqR30315; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 00:32:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <02e401c189ae$a52a9270$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "John Baldwin" Cc: "Jeremiah Gowdy" , "Gilbert Gong" , References: Subject: Re: Microsoft Advocacy? Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 00:32:47 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John writes: > If I say "There exists some number X such > that X^2 is 16." and you say "No, I don't > agree". That means you don't think that > there is an X such that X^2 is 16. Not necessarily. There is much ambiguity in natural language, although your contrived example above contains considerably less of it than the original statement you attempted to analyze. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message