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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: "Iain Alexander" <ia@stryx.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 23:20:04 -0000
On 30 Nov 99, at 7:03, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> But we
> haven't as yet been able to explicitly determine the logic
> behind {kau}, even though the subject came up several times
> before.
I may well have suggested something like this before, but I think the logic
behind {kau} is that
E(x kau)
means
lambda x: E(x)
i.e. the function which assigns truth values to the expression E(...) given any
value of the {kau}-tagged variable x.
This implies you know the whole story - who came and who didn't come
(given the long-ago-snipped example).
It's a rather abstract view of the situation, but it works for me. :-)
co'o mi'e .i,n.
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