| In a message dated 6/5/2001 8:03:36 PM Central Daylight Time, cowan@ccil.org
writes: In particular, even "ui" can be seen as a propositional attitude, In short, when we had a chance to get rid of an ambiguity in English (and at least SAE generally), we muffed it, keeping the whole shooting match. Actually, it is rather worse than that, since the distinction was made and preserved in Loglan -- though people regularly got it wrong and had to be corrected. And, of course, it is a distinction made around about page 15 in a good logic book. I think "waffle" is overgenerous and I suggest that we have again fallen for the lowest common denominator. |