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- From: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill)
- Subject: Re: Doctrines of Maybe: 7 truth values
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:32:48 GMT
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- In article <8565@charon.cwi.nl>, frankt@cwi.nl (Frank Teusink) writes:
- |> colinb@.ic.ac.uk (Dr C. Bridgewater) writes:
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- |> >Anthropologist says that a tribe in Africa have a 1-2-many number
- |> >system because of elephants.... Why ? Well, it's possible to avoid
- |> >1 mad elephant quite easily. A brave and fleet-of-foot person may
- |> >avoid 2 mad elephants, but after that no-one has a chance. Hence
- |> >there is no need for them to have a higher number than the number
- |> >of elephants a hunter can escape from.....
- |>
- |> I find it hard to believe this. Everybody who has seen many mad
- |> elephants dies before he/she can communicate the concept of the
- |> existence of many mad elephants to the tribe. So, how did they
- |> find out about the possible existence of many mad elephants?
- |>
- |> Bye, ;-)
- |>
- |> Frank Teusink
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