* Gary Shannon said on 2009-01-03 09:29:44 +0100
> * On Fri, 1/2/09, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> > How would you modify nouns ("the red apple" vs.
> > "the green apple")?
>
> Just off the top of my head, let "red" be a function, called
> with the thing to be modified with redness: red(apple). Let
> tense be a function applying its modification to an action,
> which in turn applies the action to a thing:
> past(run(Johnny)).
>
> Then the whole statement could be made into either an
> assertion of fact or a question:
>
> Assert(past(run(Johnny))); // asserts that Johnny ran
> Query(past(run(Johnny))); // queries whether or not it is true that Johnny ran.
Aiigh! *remembers Montague semantics* *runs away*
t.