From LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Mon Nov 20 14:54:56 1995 Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id OAA00992 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 14:54:52 -0500 Message-Id: <199511201954.OAA00992@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 8D111B99 ; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 15:44:33 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 18:57:31 +0000 Reply-To: ucleaar Sender: Lojban list From: ucleaar Subject: Re: How jai and tu'a work To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu Status: OR > >My maoste has {tua} = "the bridi implied by". > Sounds like I need to change it to "the abstraction implied by" But then it's too vague to be that useful. "Abstraction", I take it, is not a coherent semantic notion, but a syntactic notion, so I suppose it means "whatever a NU can denote". In that case, tua can refer to a truth value or an experience or a concept or, given {suu}, anything whatever. --- And