Re: Issues with van Fraassen's Paper

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From: Nam Nguyen
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:10

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george wrote:
> On Sep 21, 7:30 pm, Newberry <newberr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Van Frassen's definitions are below. The negation of sentence A is
>> true if (respectively, false) iff A is false (respectively, true.)
>>
>> 1. A presupposes B if and only if
>> (a) if A is true then B is true
>> (b) if ~A is true then B is true
> 

Occasionally I saw a reply post in which there were actually
no replying texts! I wonder what that would mean or signify?

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