Re: Negation?

On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, John Cowan wrote:

> How about negations of perception statements?  "I do not now see a
> unicorn" can't be expressed as "Someone sees a unicorn somewhere
> else" or "I saw/will see a unicorn at some other time"
> (and these statements are fishy anyway, since "else" and "other"
> mean "not this one" and "not now").  Yet it is a truth whose
> expression may be important; expressing it by enumerating all the
> other things in the visible field doesn't cut it.
This si fun: like a crossword puzzle.  How about "Unicorns are fictional
animals."

--Patrick