From pycyn@aol.com Sat Oct 07 06:04:10 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_0_3); 7 Oct 2000 13:04:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 31135 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2000 13:04:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 Oct 2000 13:04:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r09.mail.aol.com) (152.163.225.9) by mta3 with SMTP; 7 Oct 2000 13:04:10 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r09.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v28.26.) id a.9.b877f8e (6932) for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 09:03:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <9.b877f8e.2710793f@aol.com> Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 09:03:59 EDT Subject: RE: "except the cat" To: lojban@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 41 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 4519 Old logician's rule: "All except the cat ..." = "Only the cat not..." = "Everything if not ... then is the cat". But usually we want to say (as logicians often do not) that the cat does not... as well as that nothing else does. So "Everything not ... if and only if is the cat"