Return-Path: Message-Id: <9110111828.AA13507@relay2.UU.NET> Date: Fri Oct 11 15:14:07 1991 Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: Lojban duplications X-To: lojban To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann In-Reply-To: <9110102236.AA24412@relay1.UU.NET>; from "pucc.princeton.edu!jimc" at Oct 10, 91 3:32 pm Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Fri Oct 11 15:14:07 1991 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN > Is it our current doctrine that, for each predicate, besides the > numbered places, the predicate relation includes every case > whether or not specified by words? In other words, every bridi > includes a (often unspecified, likely useless in practice, but > doctrinally important) tense, speaker, listener, language of > expression, cause (4 kinds), consequence (4 kinds), exemplar, etc. etc. > ad infinitum? Note that fi'o can make a case out > of every selbri in the language, so "ad infinitum" is to be taken > literally. It is Even So, ya sidi. -- cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban