From LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:59:06 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Received: (qmail 27502 invoked from network); 23 Nov 1996 02:36:30 -0000 Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE (192.36.125.6) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with SMTP; 23 Nov 1996 02:36:13 -0000 Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <3.E70565CA@SEGATE.SUNET.SE>; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 3:35:57 +0100 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:29:09 -0300 Reply-To: "Jorge J. Llambias" Sender: Lojban list From: "Jorge J. Llambias" Subject: Re: subordinate interrogatives X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 841 Lines: 28 Message-ID: Excellent! Excelentisimo! Let's see now, we can also do {mokau}: ko'a djuno ku'au mi mo kau she knows that I Qu N.I.F. "She knows what I am." Which expands to: ro bu'a zo'u ge da jei zei jei gi ko'a djuno ku'au da jei mi bu'a "For every F(), there is something that is a truth value and that she thinks is the truth value of the proposition F(mi)." But I can't do {xokau}, because there is no bindable quantifier variable: ko'a djuno ku'au mi citka xo kau plise she knows that I eat Qu N.I.F. apples "She knows how many apples I eat." "For every q, there is something that is a truth value and that she thinks is the truth value of the proposition that I eat q apples." How do we say that in Lojban? co'o mi'e xorxes