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- From: kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin)
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:11:34 GMT
- Subject: Re: FTP'able pop for msdos
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- In-Reply-To: bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU's message of 17 Nov 92 21:45:30 GMT
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- In article ... bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey) writes:
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- kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin) writes:
- >Saffron, or Karl, or Salt. Something like that.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- Could you please explain the category that these are examples of? (Don't
- say "words"!) :-)
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- ``words'' are an important concept in Pop, just as ``symbols'' are in Lisp.
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- The category is, of course, ``names related in some plausible way to the
- actual name of the labguage I have in mind''. (Anyone who thinks this isn't a
- ``proper'' category, read Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, by Lakoff.)
-
- Ahem.
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- Saffron is (if I recall correctly) a flavouring, as well as a colour. Salt is a
- flavouring. Doesn't everyone know who Karl is?
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- No, not that one. The philosopher.
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- Appropriate to this newsgroup?
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- Karl Popper. (The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Conjectures and Refutations,
- The Open Society and its Enemies, The Poverty of Historicism, etc.)
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- Enough clues yet?
-
- --
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- Regards, Kers.
- "If anything anyone licks, they'll find it all ready in sticks."
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