[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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