From LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu Fri Dec  2 17:13:57 1994
Message-Id: <199412022213.AA20261@nfs2.digex.net>
Date: Fri Dec 2 17:13:57 1994
From: Jorge Llambias <jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Some thoughts on Lojban gadri
Status: RO

la djan cusku di'e

> The fact that "lei" is +specific doesn't affect what its outside quantifier
> is, since (as I said before), the outside quantifiers of masses aren't
> true logical quantifiers: the true quantifier in the sense of predicate
> logic is always "pa".  The apparent quantifier is really a fractionator:
> we massify some number of components, determined by the inside quantifier
> (really a set cardinal, as pc says), get some fraction of it, specific or
> non-specific as the gadri tells us, and then use that as a singular term.

I think the fractionator is nonspecific unless it is piro. If you are
referring to a specific fraction, then {le pisu'o} will do the job.
Otherwise, how do you refer to a nonspecific fraction of an in-mind
specific mass?

Jorge