From jcowan@reutershealth.com Thu Mar 2 13:38:04 2000 X-Digest-Num: 381 Message-ID: <44114.381.2138.959273826@eGroups.com> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 16:38:04 -0500 From: John Cowan Subject: Final clubs (was: Sets etc.) Jorge Llambias wrote: > I took "precludes" as descriptive of a situation, not as > a membership rule of the club! Ah. > So the definition of final club has to preclude some > sets of membership rules like the one above to be > a real definition. True. However, the aim is not to find out in what situations the list of final clubs can be determined, but simply to get a non-circular definition of "final club" against the set of cases where it is meaningful. > What is Quine's answer? That there is no non-circular > definition? Actually, he says there is an answer but leaves it up to us. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! || John Cowan Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)