Sorry. Couldn’t resist.
& why not?
Logic text books give truth conditions for conjunctive sentences (ie, sentences in which two other sentences are joined by &) in terms of the truth conditions of the constituent subsentences. The definition is circular (ie, employs ‘&’ itself) which means that you couldn’t use it for teaching purposes but definitions are used for a lot of other purposes and circularity isn’t a fault for most of those other purposes—that it is a fault is a common myth. Here’s the definition:
Where A and B are any sentences, ‘A&B’ is true just in case A is true and B is true.
Believe it or not, this is very useful in logic. (I won’t explain why.)
Well, you asked for it!!!
I think it’s related to -N-
Ampersand. That city in Dutchland where you can smoke pot and oogle at hookers.
The people are either wildy liberal or ultra-conservative…
In the spirit,
yer Daily Weekender
On 2003-01-30 13:20, Tony wrote:
I think it’s related to -N-
Tony,
Is that related to 'N ?
Mike
On 2003-01-30 13:30, The Weekenders wrote:
Ampersand. That city in Dutchland where you can smoke pot and oogle at hookers.
The people are either wildy liberal or ultra-conservative…In the spirit,
yer Daily Weekender
Hmmm. I think that’s what I was trying to say. Where did you learn logic 'enders?
No, “&” is Not related to me. Sounds similar, is all.
N, not &
Logic= pertaining to habitation of North American aboriginals. see “Lodge”
Ampersand
Pronunciation: 'am-p&r-"sand
Function: noun
Etymology: alteration of and (&) per se and, literally, (the character) & by itself (is the word) and
Date: 1835
: a character typically & standing for the word and
[Merriam-Webster dictionary]
My dyslexic neighbour said “&” has something to do with DNA.
Hope that helps, Dale.
Jef
Oops, duplicate post.
Happened when I fixed the fence, too.
Jef
[ This Message was edited by: Jeferson on 2003-01-30 15:08 ]
It is the symbol people use when they can’t draw a C clef
The symbol came from type setters combining the letters “Et” into one symbol. And “Et” is Latin for “and” of course.
On 2003-01-30 13:57, tyghress wrote:
It is the symbol people use when they can’t draw a C clef
Ms. Ghress: Never had trouble drawing the C clef, but I can’t for the life of me make an ampersand without feeling like I’m writing backwards with my wrong hand. Go figure.
On 2003-01-30 14:04, Bloomfield wrote:
The symbol came from type setters combining the letters “Et” into one symbol. And “Et” is Latin for “and” of course.
Mr. Field: Interesting tidbit! I’ve been thinking lately I should learn some Latin. So I’ll consider this my first lesson.
On 2003-01-30 14:04, Bloomfield wrote:
The symbol came from type setters combining the letters “Et” into one symbol. And “Et” is Latin for “and” of course.
So the ampersand is shorthand for “phone home”?
Redwolf
On 2003-01-30 14:16, Redwolf wrote:
So the ampersand is shorthand for “phone home”?
No. But the Latin meaning is why they used to write “etc.” as “&c.”
& Tu Brute?
[ This Message was edited by: Cinead on 2003-01-30 15:24 ]
Hmmm – nothing
MarkB
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