From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Apr 16 13:46:48 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 16 Apr 2001 20:46:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 3352 invoked from network); 16 Apr 2001 20:46:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 16 Apr 2001 20:46:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3 with SMTP; 16 Apr 2001 20:46:45 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com ([192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA15227; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 16:49:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3ADB5A8C.4060005@reutershealth.com> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 16:48:12 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010215 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pycyn@aol.com Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Q References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan pycyn@aol.com wrote: >> That doesn't work, because the false value doesn't have a referent > > Whoa! If the true value (Truth) has a referent, then so has Falsehood. Sure. But I affirm that neither one has a referent. > The problem is that whatever the referent, if > there is one, may be, it won't help knowing about whether something is true > or not. Quite so. -- There is / one art || John Cowan no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein