Re: NR (no ruler)

[David Auerbach auerbach@xxxxxxxx]

Nope. Used it, but didn't refer to it. You did, of course, and I am
now by using 'it'. And in what I just typed I used 'it' and then
referred to it.
Note the infelicity of English in that referential pronouns can be
ambiguous. That's because we have so few; math, logic, programming
languages, et al, clean that up by having as many variables
(=pronouns) as one needs.
So:
Nope. Used it1, but didn't refer to it1. You did, of course, and I am
now by using 'it1'. And in what I just typed I used 'it1' and then
referred to it2.

Or to put this more straightforwardly,
 'David' contains 5 letters and no quote marks, whereas ' 'David' '
contains 5 letters and 1 pair of quote marks.


On Feb 2, at 9:32 PM, Carl Distefano wrote:

Reply to note from David Auerbach  Sat, 2
Feb 2008 16:08:15 -0500
No, some things simply name themselves. Thus, rather than use
' 'a' ' as the name of 'a', Xywrite uses 'a' as its own name.
Note for use/mention freaks: nothing I referred to above
contains more than one pair of quote marks.

You didn't refer to ' ' 'a' ' '?

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Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx




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