Not really, but it can be massaged to do the work. = The ideal would be "x1 is necessary under condition/compulsion x2"

From: Michael Turniansky <mturn= iansky@gmail.com>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Fri, November 18, 2011 11:51:35 AM
Subject: Re: [lojban] Lions and levels and the like

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:39 PM, maikxlx <maikxlx@gmail.com>= wrote:

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:29 AM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com> wrote:> JCB had at least one course in Logic but in a school that did not fav= or modal
> logic at all. I don't know how well he did in even that one (Loj= bab does not
> improve the logic input much). But in 56 years, = the efforts to get necessity
> operators in have come to naught -- th= ough eventually we got something like a
> necessity predicate,
>
Is there a brivla for logical or= modal necessity?

Does nibli meet your requirements?

&nbs= p; --gejyspa

If I may confess something, I ha= ve been studying Lojban on and off for
years, and every time I get into = a learning groove I encounter some
facet of the language that strikes me as so bizarre or absurd that it
st= ops me in my tracks. The lack of a necessity operator and the
ques= tionable status of {ka'e} make the current situation no exception.

I had absolutely no intention of suggesting reforms or additions
because= although nearly aspect of the language screams for them, the
fact of th= e matter is that reform is not in the cards and the
language's foundatio= n is pretty much set in stone. However here I
think that I will simply use {ne'e} when I need it, and possibly
{ci'a} = too until I convince myself that {ka'e} does what xorxes claims
it does.= I understand there is an experimental cmavo process, but I
am going to short-circuit it. Waiting 56 years for "necessarily" isoutrageous.

mu'o mi'e .maik.

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