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Re: "What I have for dinner depends on what there is in the fridge"
- Subject: Re: "What I have for dinner depends on what there is in the fridge"
- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 22:20:27 -0500 (EST)
And Rosta scripsit:
>
> From: "And Rosta" <a.rosta@pmail.net>
>
> Can anyone render this into either logical form using
> only standard quantifiers (but quantification over possible
> worlds is permissible) or lojban without using {kau}?
>
> What I have for dinner depends on what there is in the fridge.
I think that 2nd-order logic does the trick:
Ef: Ex: Ey: fxy & I have x for dinner & y is in the fridge
Or in words:
There is a relation between something and something else, such
that the former is what I have for dinner and the latter is
what is in the fridge.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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