From @uga.cc.uga.edu:lojban@cuvmb.bitnet Thu Jun 22 23:28:18 1995 Received: from punt2.demon.co.uk by stryx.demon.co.uk with SMTP id AA3538 ; Thu, 22 Jun 95 23:28:17 BST Received: from punt2.demon.co.uk via puntmail for ia@stryx.demon.co.uk; Thu, 22 Jun 95 11:35:43 GMT Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu by punt2.demon.co.uk id aa03011; 22 Jun 95 12:35 +0100 Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6504; Thu, 22 Jun 95 07:33:26 EDT Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UGA) by UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 9264; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 07:33:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 07:33:40 -0400 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: loi tanxe X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Iain Alexander Message-ID: <9506221235.aa03011@punt2.demon.co.uk> Status: R >> But notice that if {loi tanxe} means "some mass of boxes", then you >> can't conclude, from knowing that I need some mass of boxes and >> that there is some mass of boxes in the other room, that the mass >> of boxes in the other room is the one that I need. > >Good. That's how it should be. And it should contrast with "the mass >of all boxes", and "all of the mass of all boxes". If I need all of the >mass of all boxes then I'm trying to corner the box market; the boxage >in the next room is a portion of what I need. If I need the mass of all >boxes, then if there's some of that boxage in the next room than it's >what I need. loi tanxe means "some of the mass of all boxes", which in English is nominally equal to "some mass of boxes". Multiple references to loi tanxe, like multiple zo'e, do not necessarily refer to the same thing. Thus "loi tanxe cu cpana loi tanxe" means that "Some mass of boxes is on a (presumably different barring some strange dimensional warping) mass of boxes. lojbab