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Re: [jboske] Re: tu'o du'u



Getting back to fundamentals.  I understand And as using {tu'o} in the following circumstance:
1 the number of items used from the set is fixed (usually one) or makes no difference at all
2 messing with quantifier placement and/or negations will not affect anything but will make for greater confusion than necessary.

If this is all that is meant, then I think the usage is proper, useful, Lojbanic and cute (high praise all).  My objection to it comes from what appears to be some further claim -- made not always by & and maybe indeed never by him -- that this usage covers some metaphysical specialization, not just simplification of _expression_.  I confess that I don't understand what that metaphysical nicety is and certainly don't see how {tu'o} is to effect it.