From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Dec 20 15:34:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail12.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2F3437B416 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:34:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 20723 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2001 23:34:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Dec 2001 23:34:31 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <02e401c189ae$a52a9270$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:34:12 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Anthony Atkielski Subject: Re: Microsoft Advocacy? Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.org, Gilbert Gong , Jeremiah Gowdy 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 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 <>< 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