Re: [bpfk] Re: O HAI I FIXT UR LODGEBANZ

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:52 PM, John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> wrote:
> 2010/10/15 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
>
>> Questions are (which is always strange, but anyway)
>
> Not at all strange.  Any point in a jufra may be the one being
> queried, just as ma, mo, and the like may appear anywhere in a jufra
> but cause the whole jufra to be a question.

It's not the place in the matrix bridi that's strange, I have no
problem with that.

What is strange is when a question is embedded in a subordinate bridi.
I'm pretty sure Lojban must violate some language universal there, but
I don't really know enough about it to be sure, it's just a feeling.


> In any case, I generally object to "parsimonious ontologies" (pc's
> phrase) that map the types of objects that fall into the x1 place of a
> NU selbri into one another.  Truth values are not necessarily to be
> identified with quantities (though, to answer another question, a
> quantity can be used anywhere a number is wanted), and neither of them
> with propositions.

So what you are saying is that you support the second "jei":

       jei ... = se jetlai lo du'u ...

Do I understand you correctly? That one cannot be used as the x2 of djuno.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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