Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:34:12 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.org, Gilbert Gong <ggong@cal.alumni.berkeley.edu>, Jeremiah Gowdy <jeremiah@sherline.com> Subject: Re: Microsoft Advocacy? Message-ID: <XFMail.011220153412.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <02e401c189ae$a52a9270$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On 20-Dec-01 Anthony Atkielski wrote: > 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. Nevermind, if you don't grok logic, that's ok, I'll just give up. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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