Re: Am I a crank?

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 12:32:12 -0600, Virgil <virgil@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <srgjf2tjitdjhmckalhbakdgp913fd37k0@xxxxxxx>,
Lester Zick <dontbother@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 1 Sep 2006 16:22:42 -0700, "Randy Poe" <poespam-trap@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


I'm not prepared to deal with predicate combinations which are not
true, false, or ambiguous.

You mean there are statements which have no truth value?

I mean there are statements which are true, false, or ambiguous.

Do you mean that there are declarative statements that need not be
either true or false? What are they then, chopped liver?

Yes.

And yet when we say a "definition" is a statement which has
no truth value, you say there's no such thing.

Can't tell what you imagine that means.

Zick has had no previous such blanks in telling people what they imagine
and what they mean, so why now?

Just because you're you.

One might almost conclude that Zick doesn't have any
clue what he himself is saying from one post to the next...

What I'm not saying is that definitions in modern mathspeak are true.
Neither are you.

Zick would be a good deal wiser, or atpresent an appearance of being so,
by not_saying a lot more.

Thanks again, sport, for your opinion on a subject you know not
whereof you speak.

~v~~
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