Re: SUO: On the supreme supertype

[meersman@vub.ac.be (Robert Meersman)]

At 20-02-01 09:54 -0400, John F. Sowa wrote:
>But I would suggest the more neutral T.  Those people who feel
>a need to verbalize it can say "top type".

### John

### as indicated in my earlier message it would make a lot of sense. T 
could even stand for "THE true top type"  :-)

### but it actually could be preferable to have it start out standing for 
nothing  :-)  (as the French say, "les extrèmes se touchent"  --and I 
always liked these projective spaces in geometry where the two infinities 
meet up)

--Robert Meersman

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