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From: ucleaar <ucleaar@ucl.ac.uk>
Date: Thu Feb 16 01:08:54 1995
Subject:      Re: replies re. ka & mamta be ma
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Mark B:
> >I'm suggesting that if there isn't a single primitive word for 1,
> >and if lg (iconically) models cognition, then such a lg implies
> >that 1 is not a basic concept. Furthermore, the sense of {le namcu
> >pe le solri} is not 1; it just happens to refer to 1. But I concede
> >that the sense of {namcu zei solri} could be 1.
> Not if your talking to an alien by radio in binary star solar system :-)

{namcu zei solri} is a lujvo, so in principle its sense can be anything
at all, even including 1 in a world with 2 suns. In practice the meaning
of lujvo are constrained by the meanings of their parts, but notwith-
standing this, the meaning of the whole can be true even if the meaning
of the parts isn't.
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