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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
  • To: bill.rea AT canterbury.ac.nz
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Uncancelable meaning
  • Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:54:40 +0100

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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Peter Kirk
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