On 03 Jul 2009, at 19:07, Brent Meeker wrote:
> Right. I have no problem with arithmetical possibilities,
> provability,
> etc. But without some defined scope the use of "possible" makes me
> uneasy. In modal logic "possible" and "necessary" are just operators
> that must be interpreted in some domain; just like "some" and "for
> all".
OK.
> I've never seen "{" and "}" denoted "accolades" but I like it; they
> are
> more commonly called "braces". I don't know a specific term for "["
> and "]", I generally refer to them as "square brackets".
OK. I think "accolade" is kind of formal hug, but in french it is a
"punctuation mark" see
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accolade
So Accolade in fench is brace in english, I will try to remember, but
if you like accolades ... Natural languages are living things and I am
all for exchange of words between languages ...
Thanks for the info,
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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Received on Sat Jul 04 2009 - 12:59:05 PDT