Re: Calculus XOR Probability

In article <25d0b$441e6f54$82a1e228$25838@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Han de Bruijn <Han.deBruijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

David C. Ullrich wrote:

On 18 Mar 2006 12:06:02 -0800, Han.deBruijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

... that a physicist should be surprised upon finding phenomena in
nature, where you would not want to have the word "infinite" in
their description rather replaced by the word "very large".

Of course that doesn't help! It's not even a _sentence_!

What the original means depends crucially on the words
you omitted. To take a few simple examples, the original
could be

(i) "It is clear that a physicist should be surprised..."

or it could be

(ii) "It is clearly wrong that a physicist should be surprised..."

Those two sentences mean exactly opposite things, and there's no
way from the quotation you give to tell which is a more accurate
guess what was in the orginal.

Only dyslexia for common speech would lead a person to vote for (ii).


How about

(1) It is normal...

versus

(2) It is abnormal...


In any case, HdB's reluctance to produce the rest of the sentence
convinces me that the complete sentence runs counter to HdB's case.
.

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