From pycyn@aol.com Thu Aug 02 01:33:12 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 2 Aug 2001 08:33:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 34608 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2001 08:33:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 2 Aug 2001 08:33:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-m08.mx.aol.com) (64.12.136.163) by mta3 with SMTP; 2 Aug 2001 08:33:11 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-m08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31.9.) id r.89.a284a15 (3858) for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 04:33:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <89.a284a15.289a6a44@aol.com> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 04:33:08 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] if, then (was: Speaking Lojban To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_89.a284a15.289a6a44_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10531 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_89.a284a15.289a6a44_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 8/1/2001 1:05:16 AM Central Daylight Time, xod@sixgirls.org writes: > "ganai, gi" is really a shorthand way to say "when a, then b, and when not > b, then not a, and I'm not discussing any conclusions from b, or from not > a". > A good summary, although the second clause is redundant. It is just the logical "if then' ("material conditional") which then says all of this. --part1_89.a284a15.289a6a44_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 8/1/2001 1:05:16 AM Central Daylight Time,
xod@sixgirls.org writes:


"ganai, gi" is really a shorthand way to say "when a, then b, and when not
b, then not a, and I'm not discussing any conclusions from b, or from not
a".


A good summary, although the second clause is redundant.  It is just the
logical "if then' ("material conditional") which then says all of this. --part1_89.a284a15.289a6a44_boundary--