Re: Sets and Lists, again
From: JOG <jog_at_cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 21 May 2006 17:48:02 -0700
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Date: 21 May 2006 17:48:02 -0700
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Sadly I cannot recall what combination of posts swayed me, but I now appear to have a firm conviction that a 'chronological list of presidents' makes no semantic sense outside of informal description. To my eyes, one may have a 'set of presidents' and a 'list of presidencies' (or an ordered set of presidencies if one prefers). I would love to see some formal presentation of this standpoint, and I would be suprised if it didn't exist, in some text, somewhere. Received on Mon May 22 2006 - 02:48:02 CEST