- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 17:26:09 -0700
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- 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.
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Cheers, Tim Bray
(ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)
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