Re: A Manual of Practical Reason

From: Torkel Franzen (torkel_at_sm.luth.se)
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: 24 Jan 2005 07:56:08 +0100

"Acme Diagnostics" <LFinezapthis@partpostmark.net> writes:

> I would not waste my time trying to determine an author's meaning
> of an excerpted phrase in an obvious exercise in short-copy
> designed to cause readers to inference in context.

  OK, so you don't take it to mean anything in particular, which
indeed it doesn't - there is no notion of "truth in a set of axioms"
in logic. Your longwinded dancing around this simple fact is a
remarkable display, but a much simpler procedure would be to introduce
some straightforward emendations in the description.

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