Re: OT: verification principle (was Re: [jboske] factivity of nu)

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, John Cowan wrote:

> Invent Yourself scripsit:
>
> > You intend to count propositions? Are you sure that they are countable?
>
> Prepositions, if not ineffable, must be encodable as sentences, and sentences
> are countable, if you exclude sentences of infinite length. In Lojban, the
> grammar allows such sentences, but we are not able in general to determine
> their truth conditions.


A bunch of sentences are countable but little can be deduced from that
number, as Jordan hopes to, because it's trivial to alter that number with
grammatical rearrangements.


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