Joel Uckelman on 24 Jun 2002 02:13:02 -0000


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Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] DimShip redo


Thus spake bd:
> On Sunday 23 June 2002 9:55 pm, Joel Uckelman wrote:
> > We might mean "A and not B", but it seems to be more at "A, and if A th=
> en=20
> > not B". That's logically equivalent to "A and B", though, which indicat=
> es=20
> > that "lest" cannot be given a purely syntactic characterization.
> 
> Umm... A =3D> not B logically precludes A and B.

Oops. Typo. I meant "A and not B". Sheesh, and I'm the one who's the logician.

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