Date:  Tue, 6 Jan 1998 11:10:16 -0500 (EST)
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From: And Rosta <a.rosta@UCLAN.AC.UK>
Organization: University of Central Lancashire
Subject:      Re: knowledge and belief
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mark:
> Just to muddy the waters further, how does this play with those indirect
> questions that have been making so many heads spin?  What about "Steven
> knows that Jorge knows who went to the store"?  You can't replace the second
> "knows" with "believes" or "opines", even in Lojban, can you?  The first
> maybe.  Does {mi krici ledu'u makau klama le zarci} make any sense in
> Lojban, as a "less certain" form of {mi djuno ledu'u makau klama le zarci}
> as the claim seems to be?

Yes. It would mean "I have an opinion on whether ushc-and-scuh is
true".

--&.