[Ltru] [OT] Logic (was: Re: my technical position on extlang)
Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> Mon, 26 May 2008 10:50 UTC
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Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 18:32:18 +0900
To: Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com>, LTRU Working Group <ltru@ietf.org>
From: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
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Subject: [Ltru] [OT] Logic (was: Re: my technical position on extlang)
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This is off-topic, but may be helpful anyway. At 06:30 08/05/26, Peter Constable wrote: >> From: Leif Halvard Silli [mailto:lhs@malform.no] > >> > My hunch is that, for most macrolanguage cases, most users would not >> be able to handle most of the encompassed languages. If that's the case, >> then you're making an argument *against* extlang. >> > >> >> And if your hunch is wrong, you are making an argument for Extlang. > >Not necessarily. If a implies b, it does not logically follow that not b >implies not a. Well, in classical logic, "not b implies not a" indeed logically follows from "a implies b". That only breaks down if you remove the law of the excluded middle, if you no longer have "a or not a = TRUE". Regards, Martin. >Besides, I doubt my hunch is wrong: AFAIK, it's not the case that most >Chinese are able to handle most Chinese languages; it's not the case that >most Quechua are able to handle most Quechuan languages; it's not the case >that most Zapotec are able to handle most Zapotec languages. #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-#-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
- [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Martin Duerst
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Gerard Meijssen
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Debbie Garside
- [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Leif Halvard Silli
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Leif Halvard Silli
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Leif Halvard Silli
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Martin Duerst
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Randy Presuhn
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Leif Halvard Silli
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Gerard Meijssen
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Leif Halvard Silli
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Leif Halvard Silli
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Gerard Meijssen
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Leif Halvard Silli
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang John Cowan
- [Ltru] What people want (Was: my technical positi… Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Re: [Ltru] What people want (Was: my technical po… Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Leif Halvard Silli
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] What people want (Was: my technical po… Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Nicolas Krebs
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Kent Karlsson
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Shawn Steele
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Leif Halvard Silli
- Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang Leif Halvard Silli
- [Ltru] [OT] Logic (was: Re: my technical position… Martin Duerst
- Re: [Ltru] [OT] Logic (was: Re: my technical posi… Peter Constable