From: Alan Riddell (peekee_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Mon Jun 03 2002 - 14:23:21 PDT
> We reach the same conclusion by different roads. The text is > > ...any future rule they do post can only be VALID if the style > points awarded for that rule are negative. > > and I take "if" in its strictly Boolean sense, i.e. "A if B" is true > if and only if (B is false) or (B is true and A is true). In this > interpretation no causal dependence is required: the restriction is > obeyed for any rule which is not both VALID and possessed of positive > style. A little of topic here but "only A if B" is not the same as "A if B", and is actually the same as "if A then B" or "A only if B". -- Rule Date: 2002-06-03 21:19:40 GMT
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