From BestATN@xxx.xxx Sun Feb 21 11:59:20 1999
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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:59:20 EST
From: BestATN@xxx.xxx
Subject: Re: truth values

In a message dated 2/21/99 1:13:13 PM Eastern Standard Time,
ljm@marx.ljm.wownet.net writes:

<< > system stuck in my head (thoug I forget the Sanskrit name for it) because
it
> has no less than seven truth-values:

2 ** 3 - 1 = 7. Simple calculation. But why "-1" ? Don't forget there is the
notion of `NULL' in both Chinese and Indian philosophy. :-)
>>

I wondered about that too, when I first read it, but the zeroth possibility
would be equivalent to no truth value. Is 'no truth value' a legitimate truth
value?
co'o mi'e civten