Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!unc!goodrum From: goodrum@unc.UUCP (Cloyd Goodrum) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: convincing Message-ID: <370@unc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 15:34:43 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.370 Posted: Tue Jun 4 15:34:43 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Jun-85 02:25:08 EDT References: <950@peora.UUCP> <1108@uwmacc.UUCP> <788@gloria.UUCP> Reply-To: goodrum@unc.UUCP (Cloyd Goodrum) Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 34 Summary: In article oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious oyster) writes: >In article <788@gloria.UUCP> colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes: >>> Most >>> recently, I've spent the last 20 or so months constantly trying to convince >>> somebody (both verbally and otherwise) that she really is a desirable person, >> >>Statements with "is" are meaningless. I think I know what the Colonel is getting at here, but he didn't say it in the clearest possible way. So I must rescue him from the Vicious oyster. >>More specifically, you can hardly >>prove an abstraction like "she is a desirable (to the general public) person." >>You can easily prove that _you_ desire her. >>-- >>Col. G. L. Sicherman >>...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel > > Oh... I see you must have editted the "to the general public" out of my >message in your reply. And incidentally, if, as you state, statements with >"is" are meaningless, then statements with "are" must be meaningless too, >since both "is" and "are" are different forms of the same word. Hence your >statement proves itself false. > > "There, I've run rings around you logically." >-- > - j "vo" p > >{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster I think what the Colonel was trying to say is that it is meaningless to say "she is a desirable person" without having some idea of who she is desirable *to*. Since people are as diverse as they are, practically everyone is desirable to some people and undesirable to others. Cloyd Goodrum III