Return-Path: Message-Id: From: cowan (John Cowan) Subject: Re: expansion to sentences To: lojban-list Date: Fri, 14 Jun 91 9:54:34 EDT In-Reply-To: <9106131652.AA03375@euphemia.math.ucla.edu>; from "math.ucla.edu!jimc" at Jun 13, 91 9:52 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL13] Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Fri Jun 14 09:55:14 1991 X-From-Space-Address: cowan la djim. kartr. cusku di'e: > I find it convenient to stick with the > Old Loglan view (per JCB, undoubtedly derived from some classical > philosopher) that a brivla is a relation between not only the occupants > of its numbered places but zillions of other possible modal places. This is also the Lojban view. Oddly, I had thought that jimc had rejected it, based on the -gua!spi report, which speaks of predicates "express[ing] a relation between the occupants of its cases", with no mention (at that point) of the modal cases. -- cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban