Subject: Re: quantified variables - beginers question
From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List)
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 09:30:05 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <199510250938.FAA29798@locke.ccil.org> from "Cyril Slobin" at Oct 25, 95 12:30:36 pm
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la kir. cusku di'e

>     Is {ro da poi broda} equal to {ro lo broda} ?

This is one of the major unsettled questions of Lojban: the relationship
between "ro broda", "ro da poi broda", and "ro lo broda".  It is clear that
they have similar meanings, but there are at least two places where they may
differ:

	1) if there are no brodas;

	2) in sentences like "re [lo/da poi] nanmu cu viska re [lo/da poi] gerku"
	where it is not clear whether there are at most 2 dogs or there
	might be 4 distinct dogs.

-- 
John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.