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On 7/12/06, Jim Carter <jimc@math.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> So distributing a relation over all the one or zero members of the smaller
> sized sets is important and needs to be supported in the language.

Of course. The only point I was making here is that when {ko'a} has a
single referent, {lu'o ko'a broda}, {ro ko'a broda} and {ko'a broda} all
say the same thing. (And if you know that {ko'a} has a single referent,
marking it either for distributivity or for non-duistributivity would be very
un-Gricean, because it adds nothing.)

The only point of disagreement we seem to have with Maxim is that
he would have distributivity to be an obligatory distinction in Lojban, and
I would have it to be an optional distinction.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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