Date: Tue, 10 Aug 93 02:06:22 EDT
From: lojbab@grebyn.com (Logical Language Group)
Message-Id: <9308100606.AA03870@grebyn.com>
To: 91909372@bradford.ac.uk, cowan@snark.thyrsus.com, nsn@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au
Subject: mei again
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I ran across this message I sent Cowan a couple of months ago.
>leviticus> mail cowan
>Subject: formal semantics - masses
>
>You write in response to Colin on formal semantics:
>>Non-logical connectives, OTOH, can I think be viewed as structured
>>terms, in Prologese:  klama(joi(mi,do),le_zarci).  In essence, each
>>non-logical connective is really a sort of nominalized predication,
>>although exactly what the subordinate predicate is is not clear in
>>purely Lojban terms:  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?

lojbab