Incidentally, I don't quite understand why "truth value" shouldn't come up
in conversation once you're using a short term like {jei}, which is
considerably less cumbersome and IMO more straightforward than the
alternative, especially in a language which has part of its basis in
classical logic.mu'omi'e .latros. On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Michael Turniansky <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:37 PM, chris kerr <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Actually, is having {jei} redundant in this sense? Is there ever a > > time when you need "the truth value of" and "whether" won't do? > > > > Of course there is. Consider, for example, all those Smullyanesque > logic puzzles, where the answer is something like, "If I were to ask > you if the truth value of your answer is the same as the truth value > of "The dragon behind the second door?", what would you say?" > > --gejyspa > > > >
