Re: WOT logical form (was: OT Use of Ellipses (was Wikipedia entry on XyWrite))

[David Auerbach auerbach@xxxxxxxx]

I was, as we often do in elementary examples, abstracting from tense
(and other complicators). I use the Jack and Jill example because it's
cute; if you like, switch it to 'Jack and Jill graduated.'


And certainly,
  Either Jack or Jill spit up

is best regarded as the disjunction of two statements, rather than
being about a strange disjunctive entity.


On Jun 16, at 9:40 AM, Paul Ambos wrote:

Also, "Jack and Jill went up the hill" is not the same concept as
"Jack went

up the hill yesterday and Jill went up the hill today". As ordinarily
understood, "Jack and Jill" is a unit.

Regards,

Paul Ambos
pambos@xxxxxxxx

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'Jack and Jill went up the hill' (just to switch to a compound subject
for the fun of it) is, for logical purposes, equivalent to 'Jack went
up the hill and Jill went up the hill'. And, the latter is primary for
logical purposes since its form (A & B) supports the obvious inference
(to A). That is, it follows from 'Jack and Jill went up the hill' that
Jack went up the hill. It doesn't follow that Jack.



David Auerbach
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David Auerbach
Department of Philosophy & Religion
Box 8103
NCSU
Raleigh, NC 27695-8103