Re: All hail Neo!

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:09:46 GMT
Message-ID: <_4T3g.66352$VV4.1268982@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>

Marshall Spight wrote:

> mAsterdam wrote:
>

>>This is irrevant to the question.

>
> Indeed. The basic equation isn't sound, and there's no
> getting around that.
>
> Start with a language L. Add feature F to get language L'.
> L' is less expressive that language L. Solve for F.
>
> For all L: result is the empty set.
>
> (Note that I do not say "null.")

You have a faulty assumption. You assume that feature F has no effect on the set of existing features of L. The assumption is false, as is your conclusion. Received on Wed Apr 26 2006 - 18:09:46 CDT