[FOM] An absolutely final reply to Slater

Arnon Avron aa at tau.ac.il
Sat Oct 11 07:04:42 EDT 2003


Slater wrote:

> Arnon Avron writes:
> 
> >If I understand you correctly, your answer to my question is "yes": you
> >do reject these two sentences as ungrammatical. But you have not said so
> >explicitly, and English is not my mother's tongue. I might therefore have
> >misunderstood you. So can I humbly ask you to give an explicit "yes" or "no"
> >answer to the question above (calling it 'tangential' is just refusing to
> >draw the obvious conclusions from your claims!).
> 
> I have not given any answer to the question, nor do I propose to do 
> so.  I have been making a point about grammaticality in connection 
> with basic numerical statements, and that is all I am concerned with. 

And just recall who has recently talked about paraconsistency...

Anyway, I believe that with this answer of Slater I can safely rest
my case.



Arnon Avron








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