From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: an infinate loop
Date: 14 Jul 2001 07:00:53 -0700
Date: 2001-07-14T14:00:53+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0107140600.1129f40b@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3B4F764E.DF2DB15@boeing.com
Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> wrote in message news:<3B4F764E.DF2DB15@boeing.com>...
> Studies indicate that people understand positive logic better than
> negative logic.
Without a reference, such an argument is simply an appeal to authority,
a well known debating technique, but not one to be paid much attention
to. Now *with* a reference, it would be an interesting contribution.
To me in english is it just as clear to say
"if you are free today, can you ...
"if you are not busy today, can you ...
And it would be interesting to see "studies* refuting this ...
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-12 21:43 an infinate loop Beau
2001-07-13 3:21 ` DuckE
2001-07-13 13:57 ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-13 17:01 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-07-13 18:11 ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-13 22:26 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-07-16 15:14 ` Marin David Condic
2001-07-17 17:02 ` Matthias Kretschmer
2001-07-17 17:56 ` Marin David Condic
2001-07-17 19:25 ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-19 11:38 ` Matthias Kretschmer
2001-07-19 14:28 ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-17 17:13 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2001-07-14 23:41 ` Darren New
2001-07-16 13:24 ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-16 15:19 ` Marin David Condic
2001-07-13 20:40 ` chris.danx
2001-07-13 22:29 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-07-14 14:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2001-07-14 16:17 ` Negative Logic (was: Re: an infinate loop) Jeffrey Carter
2001-07-17 4:06 ` Robert Dewar
2001-07-17 4:23 ` Robert Dewar
2001-07-16 9:26 ` an infinate loop Philip Anderson
2001-07-19 9:32 ` an infinite [was: infinate] loop AG
2001-07-15 21:18 ` an infinate loop Matthias Kretschmer
2001-07-16 21:59 ` Stephen Leake
2001-07-13 16:48 ` C. Bauman
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