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Subject: Re: [lojban] Second-order quantification has uses
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    <div class=3D"moz-cite-prefix">On 1/8/21 1:17 PM, Corbin Simpson
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      <div>coi</div>
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      <div>I wanted to follow up on a point of la tsani's from the
        thread "Reasoning by analogy". The point is raised that perhaps
        {bu'a} is not very useful.<br>
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    <p>I think I recall (the?) one time I felt a use for {bu'a}, but I
      did have to have it explained to me that {ro bu'a zo'u} doesn't
      mean "for all things that bu'a" but rather "for all predicates
      bu'a," which is an exception to the usual rules=E2=80=94precisely bec=
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      otherwise it's hard to use {bu'a}!</p>
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    <p>Esther 8:1: "For she (Esther) had told him (Ahasuerus) what he
      (Mordecai) was to her [viz. her cousin]"</p>
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    <p>.i .ebu pu cusku fi .abu fe lo du'u my bu'akau .ebu</p>
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    <p>I guess it doesn't need the quantification after all (this
      originally occurred to me before the invention of {kau}, I
      think.)=C2=A0 Does there need to be some quantification anyway,
      though?=C2=A0 To mean some particular implied (ellipsized)
      relationship, and not some random one like {viska} or {te djuno}
      or something?</p>
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    <p>~mark<br>
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