{"id":70,"date":"2014-03-26T14:59:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T18:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s14\/?p=70"},"modified":"2023-04-29T21:54:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T01:54:08","slug":"hw5-about-part-i-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s14\/2014\/03\/26\/hw5-about-part-i-a\/","title":{"rendered":"HW5, about part I.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten a couple of questions about homework 5, but the main one so far is this one:<\/p>\n<p>For part I.A., you are encouraged to &#8220;recycle&#8221; your constants &#8220;to the greatest extent possible&#8221; but you need not take this to its logical extreme.  Since (1) and (2) both involve John and Mary, and some particular $10 dollars we are considering to be an individual, there&#8217;s no need to rewrite &#8220;j: John; m: Mary; t: Ten dollars&#8221; again in (2), you can use that same key for both (1) and (2).  But then you can let it go, and define a new key for (3), with just Toby and the table.  So, no need to have a key that defines 20 different individual constants, etc., the idea was more to use groupings of one or two, where the sentences have names or individuals in common.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten a couple of questions about homework 5, but the main one so far is this one: For part I.A., you are encouraged to &#8220;recycle&#8221; your constants &#8220;to the greatest extent possible&#8221; but you need not take this to its logical extreme. Since (1) and (2) both involve John and Mary, and some particular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}