Message-Id: From: snark!cowan@gvls1.VFL.Paramax.COM (John Cowan) Subject: Re: mei again To: lojbab@grebyn.com (Logical Language Group) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 11:26:08 -0400 (EDT) Cc: 91909372@bradford.ac.uk, nsn@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 > >>there simply is no (surface) predicate with the > >>place structure "x1 is a mass whose components are x2, x3, x4 ...". > > > >This is true on its face, though gunma is quite similar. Perhaps > >on could treat "melu'o" as being a predicate with this place structure. > > > >lojbab > > Is it now true that the place structure we have given mei meets this need > by matching x1 and x3? No. This is a "jutsi"-type predicate, with an arbitrary number of arguments, and we don't have those in Lojban. Where we might need them, we use logical or non-logical connectives instead. But in order to >explain< non-logical connectives, we can >postulate< such predicates in "deep Lojban" even though they don't exist in "surface Lojban". -- John Cowan cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!lock60!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban.