Re: [jboske] specificity of da (was: kau)

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Invent Yourself scripsit:

> No, even when the speaker knows there is only one. Lojban conflates
> specificity with veridicality, and you are only considering specificity as
> the reason to use lo.

They are two sides of a single coin. Specificity means "you have to consult
the speaker to know the referent", whereas nonveridicality means "you have
to consider that the speaker might be applying the gadri selbri in a
nonstandard way".

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