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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 10:14:49 -0400
From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
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Chris Bogart wrote:

> I think even with {lo} the same thing happens:

I don't think this is the "same thing".

>    mi nelci lo gerku be la sankt. bernard
>    I like the really-are dogs which are st. bernards
> 
> The {la sankt bernard}, with {lo}, veridicially identifies the dogs as
> saint bernards, but that's all it does; what it says I "like" is only the
> dogs, not the *fact* that they are saint bernards.  For that I'd still
> need an abstractor.

Agreed.

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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
			e'osai ko sarji la lojban