Re: Repeated "and"

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From: Garry Knight
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 00:00

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On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 01:59:19 GMT, GuildMaster Arrataz
<guildmaster_NOSPAM@innocent.com> wrote:

> Garry Knight wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 6 Feb 1999 21:56:22 -0000, "Dave" <PiperMcDuff@hotmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Mark Dawes wrote in message <79hveq$jlr$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>...
> > > >
> > > >But
> > > >this starts to get somewhat unbelieveable, especially when the publican
> > > >writes back again to say ... ]
> > 
> > > Unbelievable yes, but would this form theoretical proof of a grammatically
> > > accurate sentence with an infinite number of ands lined up after each other?
> > 
> > Wouldn't it take an infinite amount of time to prove this, though?

> No.  That's what induction is for.
[snip]

Ok, I accept that it might be proof of a grammatically accurate
sentence with an infinite number of consecutive "ands", but I
challenge you to come up with proof of a semantically well-formed
one... ;o)

-- 
Garry Knight
garry@garryknight.freeserve.co.uk

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