[lit-ideas] Re: Post the letter or burn it
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:21:32 +0100 (BST)
--- On Thu, 11/8/11, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> * By 'root' he meant literally square-root. So that
>
> "Post the letter or burn it"
>
> has to be understood as
>
> √(p v q)
>
> rather than, as I think McEvoy wants it to,
>
> √p v √q
If this really is what he meant, and he wrote it in a letter, my deontic
intuition is that he most definitely should burn it. Don't post it.
Donal
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