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[192.94.73.19]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r5si14194395pbe.1.2011.11.06.16.25.54 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:25:54 -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 pA70Prhr012153 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 00:25:54 GMT Received: from martin by gonzales.homelinux.org with local (Exim 4.75) (envelope-from ) id 1RND29-0002FB-Q4 for lojban@googlegroups.com; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:25:53 -0500 Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 19:25:53 -0500 From: Martin Bays To: lojban@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] {zo'e} as close-scope existentially quantified plural variable Message-ID: <20111107002553.GB17040@gonzales> References: <20111105233402.GA2831@gonzales> <20111106033146.GC2831@gonzales> <20111106182701.GA2703@gonzales> <20111106211140.GC2703@gonzales> <20111106221157.GE2703@gonzales> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://mbays.freeshell.org/pubkey.asc X-PGP-KeyId: B5FB2CD6 X-cunselcu'a-valsi: rirni 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: / --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Sunday, 2011-11-06 at 19:42 -0300 - Jorge Llamb=EDas : > On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Martin Bays wrote: > > * Sunday, 2011-11-06 at 18:58 -0300 - Jorge Llamb=EDas : > >> > >> You could extend that method to all predicates. So instead of: > >> > >> =A0 lo prenu cu klama lo zarci lo zdani lo dargu lo karce > >> > >> you can say: > >> > >> =A0 lo prekla cu klama lo zacyselkla lo zdaterkla lo dagvelkla lo karc= yxelkla > > > > Are you mocking me? zo'o >=20 > Only on the surface. :) >=20 > > There's no problem with prenu klamaing; there is a problem with ranmapku > > klesiing. >=20 > But maybe someone else does have a problem with prenu klamaing, this > method would solve it. >=20 > The difficulty arises when you want to apply the method to "lo prenu > cu klama gi'e tavla", or, in your case, to "lo ranmapku cu klesi lo > mapku gi'e cmamau lo bolmapku". How do I know whether "lo ranmaplei > ka'e cmalu"? Yep, this is why the difference between using your "anything goes" domains and this more regimented domain is more than those three characters... I wouldn't want to say that berets being small implies that lo ranmaplei is/are small - because the same logic would give that lo ranmaplei cu ranmapku, which is what leads to evil. So lo ranmaplei would be more like another way of looking at lo ka ranmapku. This is partly why I'm not all that averse to allowing {lo mapku} get the kind 'berets', or something like it, which does mapku. It's just that we then have to complicate the logic to ensure that {su'o mapku} can't get it. (just as was done with plural semantics) > >> >> >> 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, a= nd > >> > one containing kinds of hat and kinds of garment. > >> > >> 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 > > from mundanes. >=20 > lo vi ranmapku cu mupli lo ranmapku noi mupli lo mapku noi mupli lo taxfu >=20 > But I admit I became lost as to what we are after here. Assuming I'm guessing correctly what your various {lo} phrases are meant to refer to, that's only two levels in the sense I mean 'level'. "Some hats here are examples of Berets, which is an example* of Hats, which is an example* of Garments"? You could use {klesi} for 'example*', so there's no level-crossing. Beret is a subclass of Hat, not an instance. If I'm not guessing correctly, and you really did mean "Some hats here are examples of Berets, which is an example of Kinds-of-hat, which is an example of Kinds-of-Kinds-of-garment", then I dispute the naturality of the example! --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk63JZEACgkQULC7OLX7LNaHQgCgrdz2ueO5uh7JPViWDETbUYgM NwYAoOyfOSyId0doSp/ZqWaNmIXy9KcG =PlUf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F--