From - Tue Apr 15 11:08:25 1997 Reply-To: "Jorge J. Llambias" Date: Tue Apr 15 11:08:25 1997 Sender: Lojban list From: "Jorge J. Llambias" Subject: Re: CPE: Corliss Lamont X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 717 Message-ID: la ~mark cusku di'e > Isn't a syllogism really just something like a {du'u nibli}? Maybe, but not every {du'u nibli} is a syllogism. For example, I couldn't translate "All syllogisms are true" as {ro du'u nibli cu jetnu}. > Or maybe > something to do with {te nibli}? Perhaps. What exactly is a {te nibli} anyway? It probably won't happen in the first edition of the dictionary, but I think it would be very useful if in some later edition we could have a full sentence under every gismu with all of its places filled. I'm not sure I could make a sentence with {nibli} filling the x3 place with something meaningful. Is a {te nibli} anything more precise than a {logji}? co'o mi'e xorxes