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Subject: [lojban] Re: So, what about le and da?  (was Re: Re: What the heck is this crap?)
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On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 03:54:05PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell scripsit:
> 
> > Is it derivable from that book that le broda can be converted to
> > something involving da?  If so, what is the exact form of that
> > conversion?
> 
> See 8.5.3 and 8.5.4,

"mean essentially the same thing" isn't exactly a strong endorsement.

> plus the default quantification of "le".

Well, that leads to my next question: is the outer quantifier of le
veridical (whereas the inner is not)?

-Robin

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