From cowan@ccil.org Wed Jul 30 18:54:02 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 60533 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2003 01:54:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m17.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 31 Jul 2003 01:54:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 31 Jul 2003 01:54:02 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19i2dl-0001Ur-00; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:54:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:54:01 -0400 To: And Rosta Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: le du Message-ID: <20030731015401.GD3024@mercury.ccil.org> References: <20030730123834.80685.qmail@web41902.mail.yahoo.com> <00d501c356e5$4c6e4360$3f3d0751@oemcomputer> <20030730221713.GA43767@allusion.net> <014301c356f1$aff9da00$3f3d0751@oemcomputer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <014301c356f1$aff9da00$3f3d0751@oemcomputer> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 20494 And Rosta scripsit: > > Seems to me that it should probably default to su'obu'a, like da > > defaults to su'oda. > > If that were the case, then {le bu'a} would suffice as a descriptionless > referential expression, but would have the drawback of introducing > communicatively redundant quantification with all its attendant > difficulties. The intent is that bu'a, like da, when not bound in an explicit prenex, is bound with su'o in an implicit prenex that is as close as it could be. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com Be yourself. Especially do not feign a working knowledge of RDF where no such knowledge exists. Neither be cynical about RELAX NG; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment in the world of markup, James Clark is as perennial as the grass. --DeXiderata, Sean McGrath