From robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR Sun Jun 18 10:06:01 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3424 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2000 17:05:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 18 Jun 2000 17:05:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO firat.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr) (139.179.10.13) by mta3 with SMTP; 18 Jun 2000 17:05:57 -0000 Received: from bilkent.edu.tr (IDENT:robin@fast3.fen.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.97.28]) by firat.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e5IH8WQ23635 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 20:08:32 +0300 (EET DST) Sender: robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR Message-ID: <394D00C4.1750631A@bilkent.edu.tr> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 20:03:00 +0300 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Trivalent logic [was: Re: the logical language] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Robin Jorge's Aymara link reminded me of a question that had been turning over in my mind of late; namely, is there any expression in trivalent, multivalent or fuzzy logic which cannot be rephrased in "normal" bivalent logic? For example, let's say we give the statement "Foobars like to be globbed" a truth value of 0.8 . I would interpret this as either  "80% of foobars like to be globbed" or "There is 80% certainty that all foobars like to be globbed" or "A typical foobar, if asked to express its liking for being globbed on a scale from 0 to 1, would give an answer of 0.8" or some combination of these, all of which are simple true/false statements. co'o mi'e robin.