From: Ian Goddard (Ian@Goddard.net)
Date: Sun Feb 14 1999 - 17:01:05 MST
At 06:11 PM 2/14/99 -0500, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>> >> IAN: "No x" means "zero x."
>> >> If there's zero x, then x = 0.
>
>You are confusing the following situations:
IAN: OK, why?
>- answer is indeterminate
>- answer is to be determined
>- answer is the number zero
>- answer is blank text
>- answer is the empty set
>- answer is random/anything
>- answer is everything
>- answer is another question
>- question is ambiguous
>- question is invalid
>- question has not been answered
>- question is not understood
IAN: I only see two of those applying to
what John said, but I think he's indicated
that he sees the answer as more like 1/0
than zero, and if so, his statement should
be clarified as "The answer is indeterminate."
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