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

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Invent Yourself scripsit:

> 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.

The number of strings is countable, and sentences are just a subset of
strings. Countability does not have to do with any particular number;
indeed, many infinite sets are countable, including the set of (finite)
strings.

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