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From: bob@GNU.AI.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue Nov  8 18:05:00 1994
Subject:      le ninmu veridicality query
Status: RO
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jorge@phyast.pitt.edu cuku di'e

    ... For example, say I use {le ninmu} to refer non-veridically to a
    number of men. Then I could say

            mi viska pa le ci ninmu
            I see one of the three "women".

    This is -specific. Is it also -veridical? It looks like it is.

I do not understand what you are suggesting by asking whether `it' is
-veridical.  The expression {le ninmu} is not veridical, since you are
saying that you are designating entities as women regardless of
whether or not they `really' are women.  However, the utterance as a
whole is true in the context you described.

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