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Re: Quartz/Halogen incandescent bulbs

At 9:25 PM -0600 2/13/00, Jack Uretsky wrote:


On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Zach Wolff wrote:

> Kudos to Mark for showing some linguistics knowledge
> on this physics list.

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> If native speakers of a
> lanuage understand an utterance it is correct.
> Language is about communication, not arbitrary
> standards.

Go back and consider humpty-dumpty's dictum.
The two quoted sentences are logically inconsistent.

>

and it was Goedel who said something like

'NO mathematical (logical) system can be both consistent and complete'.

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