From jjllambias@hotmail.com Sat Aug 18 09:49:11 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jjllambias@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 18 Aug 2001 16:49:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 32537 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2001 16:49:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 18 Aug 2001 16:49:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.241.67) by mta3 with SMTP; 18 Aug 2001 16:49:10 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 09:49:10 -0700 Received: from 200.41.247.37 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 16:49:10 GMT X-Originating-IP: [200.41.247.37] To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Bcc: Subject: RE: [lojban] polyadic connectives Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 16:49:10 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Aug 2001 16:49:10.0472 (UTC) FILETIME=[B41B4C80:01C12805] From: "Jorge Llambias" la and cusku di'e >It seems to me that all of the nonbinary connectives we are likely >to want to use -- or to be intellectually up to using -- are of this >sort. Counterexamples are welcome. Well, pc's "if A then B else C" would be an example of a three-way connective that is not commutative. Apparently we cannot do it in Lojban without repeating one of the arguments. mu'o mi'e xorxes _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp