From: Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it)
Date: Sat Mar 08 2003 - 13:19:42 MST
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Party of Citizens wrote:
>Sample moronspeak:
>
>"All chickens are for us or against us. Some chickens cross the road.
>There are good doer chickens and bad doer chickens. Therefore the chicken
>crossed the road."
>
>Now this argument has three premisses and a conclusion. Logicians will
>immediately recognize it as translatable into the symbolic language of
>predicate calculus. But try translating that into French (and back to
>English again) and you will understand why Powell is having problems at the
>UN these days.
I'm missing something, that sentence is perfectly capable of being
translated back and forth. What do you mean?
>You could use the YES/NO/AND/OR connectors of combinatorial logic which
>mean exactly the same in Adult Normative Standard English (ANSE), as the
>only connectors for linking descriptors. A descriptor would be any symbol,
>word, phrase, clause, sentence etc. which can be UNDERSTOOD by
>ANSE-speakers even if it is not conventionally used in ANSE as long as it
>can be assigned a T or F truth value. The criterion for the phrasing of
>decriptors is purely semantic, ie it must communicate (to that ANSE target
>population). Its lexicon consists of the descriptors as above. Its syntax
>is the syntax of combinatorial logic, to which all other forms of
>arithmetic, logic and mathematics can be reduced. Can it be developed to
>the stage at which it meets the semantic criterion of accounting for
>everything we MEAN to say when we use ANSE?
>
Seems a good language for a S>1 entity :-)
Ciao,
Alfio
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