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From: cowan (John Cowan)
Subject: semantics of "most"
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 12:05:38 EDT
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David Elworthy <David.Elworthy@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk> writes:
> I think my earlier reply was probably rather negative. I'm not aiming to
> attack Lojban or any of the people who are working on it - it's just that I
> have spent some time studying this field, and I see some danger that Lojban
> will take an approach which is known to have problems with it.

Lojban does not copy words, although guaspi apparently does.  The only
exception is "ra'o"-qualified ditto, which has the effect of English
"mutatis mutandis".

> Do you know how
> Lojban handles the semantics of "most"? If it is done by a quantifier similar
> to "exists" or "all", be warned that it can be shown this will not work! I'll
> forward details if you're interested.

Please do!  Currently, "most" is a number, like "two".

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