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[192.94.73.19]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l5si13872588pbe.2.2011.11.06.14.11.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:11:58 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of mbays@sdf.org designates 192.94.73.19 as permitted sender) client-ip=192.94.73.19; Received: from gonzales.homelinux.org (root@sverige.freeshell.org [192.94.73.4]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id pA6MBv4x023184 for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2011 22:11:58 GMT Received: from martin by gonzales.homelinux.org with local (Exim 4.75) (envelope-from ) id 1RNAwX-00046k-If for lojban@googlegroups.com; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:11:57 -0500 Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 17:11:57 -0500 From: Martin Bays To: lojban@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] {zo'e} as close-scope existentially quantified plural variable Message-ID: <20111106221157.GE2703@gonzales> References: <20111105201536.GB835@gonzales> <20111105233402.GA2831@gonzales> <20111106033146.GC2831@gonzales> <20111106182701.GA2703@gonzales> <20111106211140.GC2703@gonzales> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gDGSpKKIBgtShtf+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://mbays.freeshell.org/pubkey.asc X-PGP-KeyId: B5FB2CD6 X-cunselcu'a-valsi: so'i User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Original-Sender: mbays@sdf.org X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of mbays@sdf.org designates 192.94.73.19 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=mbays@sdf.org Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_bar: / --gDGSpKKIBgtShtf+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Sunday, 2011-11-06 at 18:58 -0300 - Jorge Llamb=EDas : > On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Martin Bays wrote: > > * Sunday, 2011-11-06 at 17:15 -0300 - Jorge Llamb=EDas : > >> And even so, mere set disjointness doesn't seem to get at the heart of > >> the matter, which is probably in the x3 of klesi: > >> > >> "lo ranmapku jo'u lo bolmapku cu ficysi'u lo ka ce'u klesi lo mapku ma= kau" > > > > Yes, good. So I'd want to add three characters: > > {lo ranmaplei jo'u lo bolmaplei cu ficysi'u lo ka ce'u klesi lo maplei = ma kau} >=20 > You could extend that method to all predicates. So instead of: >=20 > lo prenu cu klama lo zarci lo zdani lo dargu lo karce >=20 > you can say: >=20 > lo prekla cu klama lo zacyselkla lo zdaterkla lo dagvelkla lo karcyxelk= la Are you mocking me? zo'o There's no problem with prenu klamaing; there is a problem with ranmapku klesiing. > >> >> Why is beret - hat - garment artificial? > >> > But they're all on the same level, no? > >> As kinds? A beret is a kind of hat, and a hat is a kind of garment. > > > > I'm only seeing two levels there - one containing berets and hats, and > > one containing kinds of hat and kinds of garment. >=20 > One level contains the garment, next level down the hat, next level > down the beret (and a fourth level I hadn't mentioned because it won't > enter into a klesi relationship contains some particular individual > beret.) So "klesi" relates two things from different levels. Oh, no, we're not using the same definition of 'level'. I was reserving that for the problematic case, where going up a level corresponding to passing from AE to EA. I believe this corresponds to (your version of) {mupli}. I meant to ask for a natural example where we go up two mupli-levels =66rom mundanes. --gDGSpKKIBgtShtf+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk63Bi0ACgkQULC7OLX7LNYAPACdGIEJXCvEGPr/s1WUlXdnUMYQ A+YAn3GO1j2sDNK4Xq7iR551G8P4cRP7 =IyLv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gDGSpKKIBgtShtf+--