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Subject: Re: Comments on negation (minor nit) 
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> Date:  Wed, 11 Jul 90 17:41:44 EET
> To:  jimc
> From:  Jussi-Ville Heiskanen (There can be only ONE!!!) <jvh@clinet.fi>
> Subject:  Re: Comments on negation (minor nit)
   
> As a minor nit, one could look at fresh/rotten also on the following
> scale:
>  
> Undone/raw  ----  Fresh/ripe  ----  Spoiled/rotten

That's a neat insight that I hadn't thought of before.  I wonder if
unsigned scales are an illusion -- if you can come up with a believable
interpretation of the negative side of any scale.  Several times I have
decided certain scales were unsigned and then hit an interpretation of
the negative side.  

		-- jimc