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Clifford" X-Apple-Yahoo-Replied-Msgid: 2_0_0_48_16269520_AB7di2IAAIa9UDKE/gpE/BpFA88 Subject: Re: [lojban] Cowan's summary: opacity and sumti-raising Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:33:34 -0500 To: "lojban@googlegroups.com" X-Original-Sender: kali9putra@yahoo.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of kali9putra@yahoo.com designates 98.138.91.55 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=kali9putra@yahoo.com; dkim=pass (test mode) header.i=@yahoo.com 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: , Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-2--32087323 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam_score: 0.0 X-Spam_score_int: 0 X-Spam_bar: / --Apple-Mail-2--32087323 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Welcome to the club. Yes, a full Montague analysis would be the surest hop= e for a solution to all problems, but nobody since Richard has been up to d= oing that, so we stick with piecemeal solutions (which is all he actually l= eft). A good analysis of words like {djicu} and {nitcu} would be a good st= art (I know the basics but can't see the specifics). Sent from my iPad On Aug 20, 2012, at 1:42 PM, "Mike S." wrote: >=20 > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:38 PM, John E Clifford w= rote: > If my memory serves, running seems the best idea. It now appears that th= e previous thread apparently about {ro} and "any" was actually about the (a= pparently) odd behavior of quantifiers in the proximity to intensional cont= exts and so there is probably a double issue at hand. =20 > {do djicu le nu do citka ma} is a real world question embedded in an tran= sworld context, so its answer turns out to reflect both its antecedents, wi= th the issue being (at least partly) just where the quantifier goes in the = the whole dialogue scheme. To this there are many answers, none of them to= tally satisfactory nor generally agreed to, so a long storm is likely. But= I am (after all these years) a pessimist, so stick around for at least a w= hile and see if something useful doesn't turn up. >=20 > IMHO only a careful and thorough formalization that posits exactly _one_ = semantic interpretation rule for _each_ syntactic operation has the chance = to clear up such issues once and for all. Such a formalization wouldn't ha= ve to be like Montague's program in all the exact details, but it would hav= e to be something much like it in terms of degree of rigor. >=20 > In the meantime I'll stick around and even chime in from time to t >=20 > =20 >=20 > --=20 > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups= "lojban" group. > To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegr= oups.com. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojb= an?hl=3Den. --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegrou= ps.com. 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Welcome to the club.  Yes, a full= Montague analysis would be the surest hope for a solution to all problems,= but nobody since Richard has been up to doing that, so we stick with piece= meal solutions (which is all he actually left).  A good analysis of wo= rds like {djicu} and {nitcu} would be a good start (I know the basics but c= an't see the specifics).
Sent from my iPad

On Aug 2= 0, 2012, at 1:42 PM, "Mike S." <mai= kxlx@gmail.com> wrote:


On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:38 PM, J= ohn E Clifford <kali9putra@yaho= o.com> wrote:
If my memory serves, running seems the best idea. = It now appears that the previous thread apparently about {ro} and "any" wa= s actually about the (apparently) odd behavior of quantifiers in the proxim= ity to intensional contexts and so there is probably a double issue at hand= . 
{do djicu le nu do citka ma} is a real world questi= on embedded in an transworld context, so its answer turns out to reflect bo= th its antecedents, with the issue being (at least partly) just where the q= uantifier goes in the the whole dialogue scheme.  To this there are ma= ny answers, none of them totally satisfactory nor generally agreed to, so a= long storm is likely.  But I am (after all these years) a pessimist, = so stick around for at least a while and see if something useful doesn't tu= rn up.

IMHO only a careful and thorough formalization that posits exactly _one_ se= mantic interpretation rule for=20 _each_ syntactic operation has the chance to clear up such issues once and = for all.  Such a formalization wouldn't have to be like Montague's=20 program=20 in all the exact details, but it would have to be something much like it in= terms of degree of rigor.

In the meantime I'll stick around and even chime in from time to t

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