On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > Not so good. This means that if a power-1 rule says MAY X, and a power-2 > rule says MAY NOT X, then the power-3 MMI would make the power-1 MAY > take precedence over the power-2 MAY NOT.
MMI provides definitions only. If the Oxford English Dictionary defines "ucalegon" as "neighbor whose house is on fire", and I say "I currently have forty ucalegons", it's not the Oxford English Dictionary that's claiming forty of my neighbors' houses are currently burning. In other words, "X means Y" is not the same as "if X, then Y". The former puts Y at the same power level as the rule that uses X; the latter puts it at the same power level as itself. --Warrigal
