Subject: Re: [lojban] fatal ambiguity in European Patent Convention

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 12:50:28 -0400 (EDT)

On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, PILCH Hartmut wrote:

> How would the two versions have read in Lojban?
> Is it a simple poi/noi difference?

I don't think so. Using "noi" would be tantamount to the wording
"Patents shall issue for any invention. An invention is ..."
and then the issue would remain whether the second sentence was
was a definition, or a mere obiter dictum.

But Lojban does have an unambiguous way of marking a definitional
sentence: "ca'e".

-- 
John Cowan [email-masked]
C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant
le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux,
de rapport nyait pas. -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"