- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 21:05:37 -0500
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>, uri@w3c.org
>pat hayes wrote: > >>>I think you underestimate the power of substitutional quantification, >>>unnatural as it seems, to work in the Real World, an essentially finite >>>place. >> >> >>If you wish to have a debate about the nature of quantification, I >>am willing to engage you in one, but it will take a long time. I >>absolutely do not accept your implication that talk of the Real >>World is inherently suited to the substitutional interpretation... > >I have *no* idea what you guys are talking about. I suspect I'm not alone. Now you know how I feel when trying to read emails about XML syntax :-). Would it be useful my trying to give an outline of the general issues (on this email list), or was your rhetorical point more like, please you guys shut up? Pat Hayes -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes s.pam@ai.uwf.edu for spam
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