| In a message dated 4/20/2001 12:55:03 PM Central Daylight Time,
xod@sixgirls.org writes: Does anybody who needs to ask what "entail" means understand "classic No, but you wanted to play in the meta-game. There you do have to-- if not know these guys -- at least know what they are about and where to get the details if they become important. They are all easy to come by (people keep touting McCawley, for example), but they take a little time. In general, I'd suggest using the time to write better Lojban; there are enough of us meta-players already. Implicature is not inductive (in any of the senses of that word and certainly not in one that could be called {tolsucta}), it is deductive from a fairly vague set of premises -- closer to legal or casuistical reasoning than scientific or statistical. |