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- From: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)
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- Subject: What is a property? (was: No Reification Here)
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- Date: 30 Dec 1992 11:41:12 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- Does everyone in this discussion have the same notion of
- property? Perhaps just to make sure, or to enlighten me, one of
- the participants would be kind enough to tell me what this notion
- is.
-
- If I were asked whether every meaningful predicate expresses a
- property, my first answer would be "yes, of course." Even an
- expressive or attitudinal predicate such as "yummy" expresses a
- property that some things have, namely, eliciting the attitude or
- expression from the concerned speaker. (Of course, to say this I
- must either reify the predicate or relativize my logic. Is this
- Zeleny's point?)
-
- Russell
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