Subject:? Re: [jboske] killing kau

[Nick Nicholas <opoudjis@optushome.com.au>]

> la nitcion cusku di'e
>
> >OK, tell me where the following fails:
> >
> >mi djuno ro lo du'u makau catra la lauras.
> >
> >= ro da
> > ro de poi de du'u da catra la lauras.
> > zi'epoi de jetnu
> > zo'u:
> > mi djuno de
>
> These expansions usually fail with negative answers. If we
> accept that "I know who killed Laura" must include the case
> that when noone killed Laura, I know that noone killed Laura,
> then the expansion fails. There is no true {de} such that
> {de du'u da catra la lauras}, therefore your expansion
> is vacuously true but makes no claim of knowledge. It would
> be true even if I don't know that nobody killed Laura.

Jorge, I hate you with the passion of a million red hot suns.

ro da
ro de poi klesi lu'i ro da
ro di poi di du'u lu'o de catra la lauras.
zi'epoi di jetnu
zo'u:
mi djuno de

Where I understand klesi to mean subset, and de to include the empty 
set.

And yes, I got the quantifiers wrong. What I want to know is, is this 
the kind of thing the answer is.

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