CDR: Re: The Dark Horse of Intellect Rides Again

[Jim Choate]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, David Marshall wrote:

> *slap* Now I'm doing it. It must be osmosis or something. I'm also
> aware that I'm nitpicking in both these posts.
> 
> I should have added "and 'no; in intermediate cases such as dusk or
> dawn."  Either way, the point is that English and most, if not all,
> languages I'm aware of have this particular problem. Some artificial
> languages, such as Lojban, tend to discourage this by, among other
> things, requiring or encouraging the respondant to restate the true
> portion of the statement.   

Any 'general' language that prohibits this sort of exclusive-OR is
worthless.

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