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- From: nadeau@bcarh1ab.bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau)
- Subject: Re: quite unique
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.055028.6015@bcrka451.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa
- References: <1992Nov14.223624.20511@bcrka451.bnr.ca> <1992Nov15.001709.14852@Princeton.EDU> <TSOS.179.722160418@uni-duesseldorf.de>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 05:50:28 GMT
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- In article <TSOS.179.722160418@uni-duesseldorf.de> TSOS@uni-duesseldorf.de (Detlef Lannert) writes:
- >
- >The times of the clear "unique"/"not unique" distinction are over.
- >If there is fuzzy logic in every washing machine you can buy, why
- >shouldn't it be in the language as well? English couldn't survive
- >on the world market if it ignored the modern concepts.
- >
- >And speakers will always (have to) adapt to their language. So it's
- >time for everyone to get fuzzy. Or should I say "quite fuzzy"?
-
- Even fuzzy logic is implemented, in computer chips, by very unfuzzy
- "1" and "0" states.
-
- I agree much of life is shades of grey (and even better, of all
- the colours of the rainbow). But some things ARE black, and some
- ARE white, and a language that doesn't recognize that also can't
- survive.
-
- The Rhealist - Rheal Nadeau - nadeau@bnr.ca - Speaking only for myself
-