RE: help with an unknown character

From: Doug Ewell <doug_at_ewellic.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:49:28 -0700

Elbrecht <sirfonts at mac dot com> wrote:

> http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pm-notation/
>
> "read as ‘the’; is the inverted iota or description operator and is
> used in expressions for definite descriptions, such as (℩x)φx (which
> is read: the x such that φx)."
>
> That's definitely not my cup of tea, but the author Eberhard Conze
> remembers: "I then [1926/27] moved on to Kiel, only to find that
> [Prof. Heinrich] Scholz had succumbed to the craze for modern logic,
> which has dogged my footsteps ever since." (Conze Memoirs Part I, p.
> 8)
>
> [Scholz was pioneering modern logic in Germany at the time the
> "principia mathematica" 2nd was published.]
>
> That's it - maybe?

Fine. Go with it. We certainly haven't seen any evidence to support
encoding it as anything else.

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