From reciproc@xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx.xx.xx Sun Dec 12 16:51:56 1999
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Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 17:51:56 -0700 (MST)
From: reciproc@xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx.xx.xx
Subject: RE: More about questions and the like (was:What I have for dinner...")

On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, And Rosta wrote:

> Likewise, for the second problem, 
> 
> "Pegasus was the winged horse captured by Bellerophon" 
> = "for every x, if x is-Pegasus then x 
> is-the-winged-horse-captured-by-Bellerophon"

I like it!

> -- and the universal quantification doesn't license the
> inferences "There was a winged horse" and "Winged horses have 
> existed." 

The problem is that we want to imply that there *are* winged horses, in a
certain context. Using the above, "Bellerophon was the winged horse
captured by Pegasus" would be equally true. In reality, of course, both
sentences do have equal truth values, but we want to indicate that we're
actually in a very particular fiction.

co'omi'e xarmuj.