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   HenHanna to Tilde   
   Re: World Logic Day (14 January)   
   15 Jul 24 12:10:43   
   
   XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: HenHanna@devnull.tb   
      
   On 1/21/2024 7:33 PM, Tilde wrote:   
   > Ross Clark wrote:   
      
   >> Proclaimed in 2019 by UNESCO in association with the International   
   >> Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences.   
      
   >> Why this date? Officially:   
      
   >> Birthday of Alfred Tarski (1901)   
   >> Deathday of Kurt Gödel (1978)   
   >> and (Crystal adds)   
   >> Deathday of Charles Dodgson (1898)   
   >>   
   >> Of course (as people have to be reminded from time to time here and on   
   >> a.u.e.) natural languages do not always follow anybody's rules of logic.   
   >> Attempts to create logically consistent artificial languages have not   
   >> met with much success.   
      
      
           Are yo saing that   THAT   was a big factor ?   
      
      
                 logically consistent artificial languages  ???   
      
      
   >   
   > Hmmm. World Logic... Sounds like a great idea! Does not   
   > appear to have caught yet, though.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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