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Date:         Sat, 17 Sep 1994 16:29:36 +0100
Reply-To:     ucleaar <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>
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From:         ucleaar <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: TECH: RE: do djica loi ckafi je'i tcati
To:           Veijo Vilva <veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI>
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Jorge:
> The difference between
>         do kakne le nu cuxna ro selska
>         You can choose every colour.
> and
>         do kakne le nu cuxna paxe'e selska
>         You can choose any one colour.
> is that in the first one you allow to choose more than one colour,
> while in the second one you don't.

Does this have something to do with the scope of quantifiers with
respect to modal operators?

  You can choose every colour:
    It is possible that for every x, x a colour, you choose x

  You can choose any one colour
    For every x, x a colour, it is possible that x is the one
     colour you choose.

cf.
  Everyone could marry me.
   It is possible that everyone marries me
  Anyone could marry me.
   For everyone it is possible that they marry me/
   For everyone it is possible that they be my one spouse

Or am I treeing up the wrong bark?

> The selling example is confusing because of the negative, let's start
> with
>         mi vecnu fo xe'eda
>         I sell at any price.

For every price it is possible that this is the (one) price I sell at

> which obviously is not the same as
>
>         mi vecnu fo roda
>         I sell at every price.

  For every x, x a price, I sell at x

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And