Return-Path: Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tHdZj-0000ZUC; Mon, 20 Nov 95 23:16 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 4C82FA71 ; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 22:16:27 +0100 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 16:22:36 -0500 Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: How jai and tu'a work To: Lojban List Cc: ucleaar@ucl.ac.uk In-Reply-To: <199511201954.OAA00992@locke.ccil.org> from "ucleaar" at Nov 20, 95 06:57:31 pm Content-Length: 774 Lines: 20 > > >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. The whole purpose of "tu'a" is to be vague (as well as brief). > "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. Indeed. The abstraction operators create general terms which are true of (and force the existence of) certain abstract objects which are in various ways connected with bridi. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.