From cowan Mon Apr 29 12:14:41 1991 Return-Path: Message-Id: From: cowan (John Cowan) Subject: Re: anaphor means what? (was: oops! correction) To: lojban-list Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 12:14:03 EDT In-Reply-To: <9104261646.AA02206@euphemia.math.ucla.edu>; from "math.ucla.edu!jimc" at Apr 26, 91 9:46 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL13] Status: RO kartr. jim. writes: > And similarly for other articles in extension (le, le'e). In Lojban an > easy way to insure this is to define a sumti with to be > an abbreviation for a restricted variable (da poi ), which > unquestionably has the same referent everywhere it occurs in the sentence, > for each member of the sentence's Cartesian expansion. This "unquestionably" won't work for "le", which has nothing to do with "da poi". "le cribe" means "the thing I describe as a bear"; there is no requirement that it really >be< a bear. "lo cribe" is indeed closer to "da poi cribe", except for the problem of the empty set I discussed earlier. -- cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban