Andre van Tonder <andre_at_het.brown.edu> writes:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Michael Sperber wrote:
>
>>> * but the datum value corresponding to a
>>> syntactic datum is uniquely determined.
>>>
>>> I also find this confusing. Clearly this cannot mean uniqueness with
>>> respect to eq? Does this mean uniqueness with respect to equal? ?
>>
>> No. It means what it says: "uniquely determined" isn't quite the same
>> thing as "unique".
>
> I guess I don't understand this. If it is not the same, how is it different?
> The way I read the text is that the syntactic datum determines a
> unique datum value, but now you seem to be saying that this unique
> datum value is not unique!?
You're asking the wrong question of this sentence, I think. You want
to ask about several syntactic datums, but the sentence only talks
about one. (And I seem to be saying a sentence containing the term
"uniquely determined", but not "unique" :-) )
--
Cheers =8-} Mike
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Received on Wed Mar 28 2007 - 11:11:27 UTC