From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Tue Feb 15 09:20:08 1994 Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Tue, 15 Feb 1994 14:26:25 -0500 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Tue, 15 Feb 1994 14:26:18 -0500 Message-Id: <199402151926.AA02968@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 1654; Tue, 15 Feb 94 14:24:27 EST Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 7538; Tue, 15 Feb 94 14:18:46 EDT Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 14:20:08 EST Reply-To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Sender: Lojban list From: Jorge Llambias Subject: Re: TECH: Quantifiers (was: cukta) To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu Status: RO X-Status: > > I suspect that my reasoning is wrong, why? la i,n mi di'e spuda > I don't understand your problem - your reasoning looks fine to me. > Just because it's veridical, doesn't mean it has to be precise. %~> By "it", you mean my reasoning? :) My doubts come from having read so many times that {ro lo broda} is often a much more absolute claim than one intends to make. If {ro lo broda} is the same as {ro lo broda be zo'e}, is it also the same as {ro lo broda be BAI zo'e}? This keeps the veridicality of {lo}, while permiting a context sensitive {ro}. I like it, but I don't think this is how {ro} is usually explained. mi'e xorxes