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Re: [Ltru] [OT] Logic (was: Re: my technical position on extlang)



> From: Martin Duerst [mailto:duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp]


> > If a implies b, it does not logically follow that not
> b
> >implies not a.
>
> Well, in classical logic, "not b implies not a" indeed logically
> follows from "a implies b". That only breaks down if you remove
> the law of the excluded middle, if you no longer have "a or not a =
> TRUE".

Doh!! My VERY bad. Of course, what I was thinking of is that "not a implies not b" does not logically follow from "a implies b".



Peter
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