From pycyn@aol.com Fri Sep 07 01:32:57 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_1); 7 Sep 2001 08:32:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 18234 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2001 08:32:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 Sep 2001 08:32:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r09.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.105) by mta3 with SMTP; 7 Sep 2001 08:32:56 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r09.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.4.) id r.96.19b576d8 (4012) for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 04:32:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <96.19b576d8.28c9e034@aol.com> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 04:32:52 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] the set of answers To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_96.19b576d8.28c9e034_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10535 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 10524 --part1_96.19b576d8.28c9e034_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/6/2001 7:57:02 PM Central Daylight Time, a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com writes: > > It is not the set {la djan; la djan e la meris; la djan enai la meris; > > noda; ... }. > > Right. Now, the downside to the way you put it is that that can't > possibly be the proper logical formulation, since the list of > Except that none of these is a proper answer, merely an ellipsis from a proper answer. The answer to a direct question is a full bridi, just as the questiion is. By the way, one thing you said is right: this makes explaining direct questions on the basis of indirect the easiest way to go, once the principle gets established. --part1_96.19b576d8.28c9e034_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/6/2001 7:57:02 PM Central Daylight Time,
a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com writes:


> It is not the set {la djan; la djan e la meris; la djan enai la meris;
> noda; ... }.

Right. Now, the downside to the way you put it is that that can't
possibly be the proper logical formulation, since the list of
possible answers is infinite.


Except that none of these is a proper answer, merely an ellipsis from a
proper answer. The answer to a direct question is a full bridi, just as the
questiion is.  
By the way, one thing you said is right: this makes explaining direct
questions on the basis of indirect the easiest way to go, once the principle
gets established. --part1_96.19b576d8.28c9e034_boundary--