Return-Path: <@FINHUTC.HUT.FI:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from FINHUTC.hut.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0rGFYn-00007DC; Sat, 10 Dec 94 02:21 EET Message-Id: Received: from FINHUTC.HUT.FI by FINHUTC.hut.fi (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 3202; Sat, 10 Dec 94 02:21:28 EET Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin MAILER@SEARN) by FINHUTC.HUT.FI (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 3199; Sat, 10 Dec 1994 02:21:27 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 0241; Sat, 10 Dec 1994 01:18:07 +0100 Date: Sat, 10 Dec 1994 00:19:48 +0000 Reply-To: ucleaar Sender: Lojban list From: ucleaar Subject: Re: 'metalogical descriptions' X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva In-Reply-To: (Your message of Fri, 09 Dec 94 13:08:33 EST.) Content-Length: 435 Lines: 13 Thanks,* Mark for dihe: [*I daren't risk the thanks UI, because I textually confuse it with the textual confusion UI] > >How do we say things like > > the predicate Gerku has 2 places [NB NOT the word 'gerku'] > loi du'u gerku cu bridi fi reda Isn't loi duhu gerku a predication, a bridi, rather than a predicate, a selbri? Say we took the example "I defined the predicate Flombo": we don't want "I defined lo duhu flombo". --- And