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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc,sci.lang
Subject: Re: Categorization: Lakoff's mistake.
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Date: 6 Jan 89 18:29:37 GMT
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From article <681@cogsci.ucsd.EDU>, by zhang@cogsci.ucsd.EDU (Jiajie Zhang):
" ...
" In the first article, Greg Lee acknowledged that what I wrote was just
" a paraphrase of one of the arguments George Lakoff made in his book.

It may be an accurate paraphrase -- I don't know, since I haven't
read Lakoff's book.  If what you wrote is an accurate paraphrase,
then my criticisms of what you said could be taken to be criticisms
of what Lakoff said.  If it's not, then they couldn't.
 
" This would be a perfect example of nonmonotonic reasoning if Greg Lee
" could show us the evidence which made his belief system changed and
" how this system changed.

My belief system didn't change.  George sent me a note saying I ought
not to slander a book that I obviously had not read.  Hence my
disclaimer.

" This kind of evidence or justification is
" important for the kind of nonmonotonic system like TMS, which may or
" may not be enjoyed by proponents of pure formalism, depending on how
" formalism is defined.

This is neat.  The discussion we have been having comes to serve as an
example to further the inquiry.  It's a pity that less is going on than
you thought.  I guess I'm still safely monotonic, whatever that means.
An analogy between 'greater-than' and 'implies'?

		Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu