From: Richard S. Holmes (rsholmes_at_MailBox.Syr.Edu)
Date: Tue Jun 04 2002 - 04:56:02 PDT
"Alan Riddell" <peekee_at_blueyonder.co.uk> writes: > > 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 > Very off topic, but in fact "only A if B" is ungrammatical (though widely used colloquially to mean A only if B). Aside from that, you're correct. -- - Rich Holmes Syracuse, NY -- Rule Date: 2002-06-04 11:56:14 GMT
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