The current obsession with "Gone Missing"

[Mark Mandel]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

>
> Indeed, there have been arguments going
> back centuries for eliminating negation from natural languages on the
> grounds that it's uninformative.  Evidently, these arguments have not
> been successful.
>

BUZZZ! Make that "Evidently, these arguments have failed."

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