From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Apr 06 16:48:19 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:48:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DJKFn-0007ED-K4 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:48:11 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DJKFn-0007E6-Hu for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:48:11 -0700 Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:48:11 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Hintikka on Quantifier Scope Message-ID: <20050406234811.GC2746@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <425444C8.9080601@thestonecutters.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <425444C8.9080601@thestonecutters.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 9775 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 04:21:28PM -0400, 2 = 3 wrote: > "Here we are beginning to see the whole horror of Frege's mistake. > The notation he introduced (like the later notation of Russell and > Whitehead) arbitrarily rules out certain perfectly possible > patterns of dependence and independence between quantifiers or > between connectives and quantifiers." > > http://www.hf.uio.no/filosofi/njpl/vol1no2/revolution/revolution.pdf I don't suppose there's a gentler version? He completely lost me at "It is intuitively obvious what is meant by such formulas as" on the second page. (in particular, I have no idea what the "V-like-thing slash for-all x" construction means). Alternatively, you could just tell us why we care? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/