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Re: [jboske] mei, latest cause celebre


la djorden cusku di'e

> Conversely: That the whole pie is such that I don't eat
> it all does not mean that there is no fraction that I eat.

piro lei cidja naku se citka mi does mean there is no fraction that
you eat.


No it doesn't. It says that the whole is such that I don't
eat it. It says nothing about other fractions of the whole.
You are reading it as "each fraction is such that I don't
eat it", but all it says is "the biggest fraction is such
that I don't it eat", it does not say anything about smaller
fractions.

piro lei cidja na se citka mi allows that you might have
eaten a fraction.


Yes, it does. {naku piro} is in fact identical to
{piro naku}, because {piro} is a singular term.

I don't see how any of this helps your default quantifer foobar. 

First let us be clear that "the biggest fraction" and
"each fraction" are different things, and that {piro}
means "the biggest fraction" = "the whole" and not
"each fraction". If we don't agree about that, I can't
go on with my explanation.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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