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- From: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Subject: Re: Multiple Truth Values
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 15:32:09 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- Summary: What does this tell us?
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- In article <1993Jan12.201545.27599@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt) writes:
- > Australian and American courts interrogate witnesses in a language that
- > presumes intuitionistic logic, in that they draw a distinction between
- > straight answers and hedged and insist on the former. ...
-
- One could interpret this to mean that the courts presume that
- anything other than Boolean logic is an attempt to deceive
- rather than to convey more subtle information. I suspect that
- a parent whose child says "I didn't not break the vase" would
- view things similarly.
-
- In short, I think it would be very easy to argue that the
- courts and parents are coming down on the side of boolean
- logic.
-
- Russell
-