Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 29/03/2007 23:12, Bill Rea wrote:
> ...
>
> I've known this is your understanding for a long time. The problem
> seems to be either that people can't see how flexibility and
> uncancelability are not mutally exclusive, ...

The words are mutually exclusive on the logical level. If something 
cannot be cancelled, that implies no flexibility. If there is 
flexibility, it means that the something can be cancelled. And Rolf has 
made it clear many times that by "uncancellable" he does not mean "only 
rarely cancelled". It is he who is insisting that there is no 
flexibility here, so that one counter example which is not an 
arbitrarily defined "special usage" is enough to disprove an alternative 
hypothesis.

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