Return-Path: Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tHc7D-0000ZUC; Mon, 20 Nov 95 21:42 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 3B534345 ; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 20:42:54 +0100 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 X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 413 Lines: 10 > >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