Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 13:48:16 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199712231848.NAA02727@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: xor questions (was Re: indirect Qs (was Re: On logji lo X-To: jorge@INTERMEDIA.COM.AR X-cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1167 X-From-Space-Date: Tue Dec 23 13:48:19 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU >>My last try: >> >>ma du lu'a lo tcati onai lo ckafi lu'u poi se vasru le patxu >>what is the identity of [tea XOR coffee] which is contained in the pot. > >As with all other tries, {lo glare} is a true and unhelpful answer. >(Or probably {lo lenku} by now.) Any question with {ma} will suffer >from this, I suspect. Why is either lo glare or lo lenku valid there. I have asked for a member of the set or at leats something identical to a member of the set. maybe I need to play around with "me" or "cmima" or even "pamei" if we want to formally restrict ourselves to members of a specific set. But I don't see how "lo glare" is a member of a set that does not specifically include "lo glare" in its membership. lojbab ---- lojbab lojbab@access.digex.net Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: ftp.access.digex.net /pub/access/lojbab or see Lojban WWW Server: href="http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/" Order _The Complete Lojban Language_ - see our Web pages or ask me.