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Re: truthvalues (was Re: ni, jei, perfectionism)

   > The truth value of a preoposition is a number, yes.  But it ...
   > does not have the properties of the common mathematical number
   > sets ...  It is not transitive, ...

   Being a bit nitpicky:

   The truth value isn't a number. If it was, then you could do all
   that mathsy stuff with it.

Yet more nitpickyness: the mathematician who taught me analysis
considered a value on a scale to be a number.  A matter of definition.
A number on scale is one kind of number; there are other kinds, too,
like integers or reals.

And there are different kinds of scale -- we discussed this last
year.  Look up `certainty factor' for an example of another type
number on a scale that behaves differently than a truth value.