On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Kerim Aydin wrote:
> Can you point me to a reference in logical or grammatical literature
> that assigns a truth value to any imperative statement ("Stand up",
> "Go left", "Zefram, be quiet").
Oh hey, I found a reference that agrees with you:
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-8248(195907)26%3A3%3C172%3AIITFAL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8
But I can't read the whole thing (not willing to pay $14), and the fact
that it's a published paper suggests that (at least in 1959) it wasn't
obvious or necessarily correct. Ain't Google neat?
-Goethe
