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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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