RE: Reification as nesting

>
>Well, sorry again to quibble, but N3 didnt *introduce* such a syntax. 
>If anyone did, it was probably one of Peirce, Frege or Aristotle, 
>although one could make a pretty good case that it was the first 
>proto-human who ever thought of writing down speech, probably in 
>ancient Sumeria.
>

They might have been a touch offended at being called "proto-human" --
writing is only a handful of thousands of years old, and at that late a
date it was definitely invented by full-fledged Homo Sapiens sapiens.


Cheers,

Ziv

Received on Wednesday, 20 June 2001 05:00:56 UTC