From: T0Morrow@aol.com
Date: Wed Dec 18 1996 - 21:02:34 MST
Romana posits various formulations of her re-defintion that avoid that
E-prime naughty word, "is", and concludes that, so put, her attempt
>doesn't seem any worse than Max's Extropy #17 definition . . . .
That depends on what you mean by "any worse". Max's definition clearly aims
at something functionally equivalent to "is". In that sense, using a colon
or a dictionary format "doesn't seem any worse", I suppose.
But, to set aside such trivialities for more substantive concerns, I do think
Romana's defintion is "worse" in that, for reasons I have set forth
elsewhere, it does a worse job of setting forth the necessary and sufficient
attributes of "Extropy".
T.0. Morrow
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