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From: DuskyDon@msn.com (Don Morgan)
Subject: Re: Consistency & incompleteness (WAS: Is PGP truly secure?)
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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 07:04:51 GMT
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         One part of the thread.   Can english have a sensible infinate sentence?  




        From childhood I remember a simple sentence that I believe is infinite or at least potentialy so.          
The sentence can have one of two meanings(yes or no),but can be of infinite length.  To keep myself
occupied and as a satifactory internal response to an unacceptable situation I said long versions of this
sentence to myself.  It is not an original sentence to me.  The sentence:
     (no):    No,no a thousand times no, I'd rather die than say: yes,yes a thousand times yes , I'd rather
die than say :no, no a thousand time no , I'd rather die...............
     (yes):   Yes, yes a thousand times yes , I'd rather die than say: no,no a thousand times no, I'd
rather die than say :yes,yes a thousand times yes, I'd rather die.......
                                              duskydon@msn.com 

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