From pycyn@aol.com Fri Jul 27 09:12:51 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 27 Jul 2001 16:12:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 69304 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2001 16:11:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 27 Jul 2001 16:11:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r07.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.103) by mta2 with SMTP; 27 Jul 2001 16:11:16 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r07.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31.9.) id r.84.1959fb48 (3992) for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:11:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <84.1959fb48.2892eca1@aol.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:11:13 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] how can i help lojban? what can $ do? To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_84.1959fb48.2892eca1_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10531 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_84.1959fb48.2892eca1_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 7/27/2001 10:07:43 AM Central Daylight Time, a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com writes: > Ambiguity involves a small number of clear and clearly distinct > alternatives. Vagueness involves an indeterminate and indefinitely > large number of not clearly distinct alternatives. > Or as logicians like to sa, ambiguity is more than one meaning, vagueness is not quite one meaning. --part1_84.1959fb48.2892eca1_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 7/27/2001 10:07:43 AM Central Daylight Time,
a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com writes:


Ambiguity involves a small number of clear and clearly distinct
alternatives. Vagueness involves an indeterminate and indefinitely
large number of not clearly distinct alternatives.


Or as logicians like to sa, ambiguity is more than one meaning, vagueness is
not quite one meaning. --part1_84.1959fb48.2892eca1_boundary--