From xod@sixgirls.org Wed Jan 26 14:28:41 2000 X-Digest-Num: 345 Message-ID: <44114.345.1854.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:28:41 -0500 (EST) From: Invent Yourself Subject: Re: Fwd: Subjunctive? X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 1854 On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > From: "Jorge Llambias" > > (2) ganai mi ponse lo megdo rupnu gi mi pindi > "Either I don't have a million dollars, or I am poor." > > That is also true. I don't have a million dollars, so > no matter what I put as the second term the sentence > will be true. It's not true in the general case; it does not fit TFTT, as a conditional should, because in reality, millionaires are not called poor. Specifically: A:"I am a millionaire" B:"I am poor" A-->B (is A-->B really) T T T F T F F T ----- Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back." -- John Maynard Keynes