Levi Stephen wrote:
>I seem to remember there was a proto or proposal trying to define 
>statements like these in more
>detail, but I can't find it right now.

"clarify Mother, May I?", proposal 5136, rejected with VI=1.25.  You voted
against it; it would have been adopted if you'd voted in favour instead.

>This is starting to remind me of this paper: 
>http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf

A brilliant paper.  Quite persuasive in its point, I think.

>Maybe R754(3) could (or is that COULD ;) ) be relied on in more cases.

I don't think that can cover most logical connectives in its current
state.  That, and some potential variation in the natural-language
meanings, was why Murphy argued for explicit definitions in my proposal.

-zefram

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