From jcowan@reutershealth.com Thu Sep 05 12:35:07 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:35:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [65.246.141.151] (helo=mail2.reutershealth.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17n2PB-0003PU-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:35:05 -0700 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA28796; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 15:45:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200209051945.PAA28796@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 5 Sep 2002 15:34:26 -0400 From: John Cowan Subject: Re: [lojban] termsets To: xod@thestonecutters.net Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 15:34:26 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20020905131008.X43868-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> from "Invent Yourself" at Sep 05, 2002 01:11:28 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 927 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Invent Yourself scripsit: > Termsets, rarely used, few understand them. In marking simultaneous > claims, how are they different from ".e"? {A, B} love {C, D} means that A loves C and B loves D. A and B love C and D means that A loves C and D, and likewise B loves C and D. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan "Any legal document draws most of its meaning from context. A telegram that says 'SELL HUNDRED THOUSAND SHARES IBM SHORT' (only 190 bits in 5-bit Baudot code plus appropriate headers) is as good a legal document as any, even sans digital signature." --me