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Jeni Tennison scripsit: > For example, I think that "What is 2002-09-28 plus a year and a day?" is > also a simple question with a well-defined answer; I don't think it > should be an error to try to ask it. Ah, but what is 2004-02-29 plus a year and a day? Time labeling is an impossible compromise between incommensurable astronomical cycles, and can never be really clean. -- John Cowan jcowan@r... www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan Consider the matter of Analytic Philosophy. Dennett and Bennett are well-known. Dennett rarely or never cites Bennett, so Bennett rarely or never cites Dennett. There is also one Dummett. By their works shall ye know them. However, just as no trinities have fourth persons (Zeppo Marx notwithstanding), Bummett is hardly known by his works. Indeed, Bummett does not exist. It is part of the function of this and other e-mail messages, therefore, to do what they can to create him.
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