Received: from mail-lb0-f192.google.com ([209.85.217.192]:33936) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1XbVJg-0007hB-Ld for lojban-list-archive@lojban.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2014 07:00:49 -0700 Received: by mail-lb0-f192.google.com with SMTP id f15sf633745lbj.19 for ; Tue, 07 Oct 2014 07:00:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=20120806; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-original-sender:x-original-authentication-results :reply-to:precedence:mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help :list-archive:sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=hVtMX93rMyg3rDEIAxAyXg42Z8GG0sFR6OKn+k91S1Y=; b=VrcCjdn7MPDQ01XmLknXY/yJAr/eTUC+JSb/iNT9vwlh/TpkC4LZa/1MdiAbjHId0z mkx1/wm8KiNa2hU74ZrGmHJ0cHop72jeU1c0Re6j96N4XVPaeE12BluMFXsGtV8xtB7Q moNmIaA3vD1gvJodtTewjmvV/j12QZwuYT7EbpQhhiEjBc6f1822dhV1AjHkIr18oSty JVkUwKW6QNRaO+No//V7KGi52hopG/a8Z9wEWoRzo/cng4Z5vJM782Z0all0fGK1KP8d eEzg00axMIyBEam79gXgjOeNnc3iu+wkkqBhCPIRQCEDqPZ0ABEjGGSjLtJvv23S4Zo3 XQXQ== X-Received: by 10.152.87.13 with SMTP id t13mr4311laz.37.1412690433139; Tue, 07 Oct 2014 07:00:33 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.152.37.99 with SMTP id x3ls698600laj.90.gmail; Tue, 07 Oct 2014 07:00:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.112.157.193 with SMTP id wo1mr78694lbb.19.1412690432103; Tue, 07 Oct 2014 07:00:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-wg0-x231.google.com (mail-wg0-x231.google.com [2a00:1450:400c:c00::231]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h1si141033wib.0.2014.10.07.07.00.32 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 07 Oct 2014 07:00:32 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of and.rosta@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c00::231 as permitted sender) client-ip=2a00:1450:400c:c00::231; Received: by mail-wg0-f49.google.com with SMTP id x12so9526518wgg.32 for ; Tue, 07 Oct 2014 07:00:31 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.194.190.116 with SMTP id gp20mr5135004wjc.27.1412690431673; Tue, 07 Oct 2014 07:00:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.208] ([95.147.226.63]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id p2sm2929777wiy.1.2014.10.07.07.00.30 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 07 Oct 2014 07:00:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5433F201.2020902@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 15:00:33 +0100 From: And Rosta User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120711 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: tersmu 0.2 References: <5349359c-f884-4976-a3e1-b0610eabeff6@googlegroups.com> <20140928013358.GB28734@gonzales> <20140928152915.GB7320@gonzales> <20141004141407.GG32481@gonzales> <20141005153531.GA1974@gonzales> <20141005214350.GC1974@gonzales> In-Reply-To: X-Original-Sender: and.rosta@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of and.rosta@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c00::231 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=and.rosta@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=gmail.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: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_bar: - Jorge Llamb=EDas, On 06/10/2014 23:10: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:55 AM, And Rosta > wrote: =20 > On 5 Oct 2014 23:38, "Jorge Llamb=EDas" > wrote: > > The presupposition is that when you use "lo plise" there's somethin= g you are talking about, and that something is identified by their satisfyi= ng the predicate "plise". > > What sort of identification is this? It sounds like you're saying lo = is definite, and attributing to it the sense I had understood le to have, w= ith nonveridical description? > > I looked up "veridicality" in Wikipedia, to see if we are talking about t= he same thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veridicality Not really a helpful move, since we are after specifically its application = to definite descriptions, where I believe general and jboske application of= the term are congruent. > So {lo broda cu brodu} is not equivalent to {zo'e ge broda gi brodu}? > > I would say they are not equivalent because that it brodas is in one > case presupposed and in the other case asserted. Okay. That answers my question. What's the rationale for your answer (i.e. = for holding that the lo description is presupposed)? =20 > If this is already covered somewhere else on wiki or in archives, jus= t point me to it. > > I don't think there is any concentrated full coverage anywhere. I have seen attempts to define {lo} periphrastically using {zo'e}. Since af= aik Lojban has no words for marking presupposition, any periphrasis (withou= t the requisite neologistic presupposition-markers) is doomed to fail. --And. --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= lojban" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an e= mail to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.