On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 09:31 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:29:05PM -0500, Craig wrote:No, it can't. Not when some of us have no training in predicate logic and can only follow the discussion with Lojban instead of Logji.Since da is only defined in terms of predicate logic, those people should either go read a book on same or bow out of the discussion. You can't expect us to teach a course in basic predicate logic here. Well, you can, but you'd be silly to do so. -Robin
I find that I agree with Robin, although perhaps this could have been said more kindly. There exists a brief introduction to first order predicate logic such that the level of discussion may ascend, for any and all, for each and every, at http://www.cs.olemiss.edu/~hcc/reports/prog_intro_logic.pdf
-Steven