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Re: The...the...

From:<veritosproject@...>
Date:Thursday, April 20, 2006, 4:28
> I don't think it really has anything to do with definiteness; the > English expression is just weird. Think about different ways of > expressing correlation. Something along the lines of "more implies > merrier", "if more, then merrier", "for every bit more, there is a > corresponding bit merrier".
Yeah, Cenoji is somewhat like "assuming that more is true, we can conclude that merrier is true also."

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Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...>