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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: "And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 19:54:39 -0000
> From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
>
> 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.
That doesn't seem to render the meaning of the sentence in question.
For example, if something I have for dinner tastes like something
in the fridge, then your sentence is true, but it is not sufficient
to make my sentence true.
Try again. In the meantime I will too, but I keep on getting
interrupted or distracted before I can think my way all the way
to a solution.
--And.