Upside down E--another argument

[Peter A. McGraw]

The only problem is what to do when they get to the chart where some of the
E's are turned sideways. :)

PMc

--On Thursday, February 20, 2003 12:49 PM -0500 Laurence Horn
<laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:

> Another argument for my stance on upside-down E:
>
> 1) Walk into an ophthamologist's office.
>
> 2) Find the large eye-chart in which the top line looks like this:
>
>                                       E
>
> --only much bigger.
>
> 3) Stand on your head (you are now upside-down, right?).  You now see
> a large existential quantifier, not a large E.  If you don't see
> either one, put your glasses back on.
>
> Larry



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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu