From cowan Mon Jan 22 10:00:29 1996
Subject: Re: tech:logic matters
From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 10:00:29 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199601202032.PAA02224@locke.ccil.org> from "ucleaar" at Jan 17, 96 07:50:31 pm
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mi joi la .and. cusku be di'e casnu

> > My recent proposal that "ro prenu" means "ro da poi prenu" (and not
> > "ro lo prenu") restores the original pre-Lojban situation.
> 
> But hang on. The {ro prenu/ro lo prenu} distinction concerns the dogbiting
> issue. Now you're saying that {ro prenu} = {ro da poi kea prenu} &
> pc says the latter means there are prenu, so you're also making the
> {ro prenu/ro lo prenu} distinction do existential import too. Is that
> what you really want?

I don't care about existential import (but feel free to try to convince me
that I should).

-- 
John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.