Re: [jboske] Needed boxes (was: lo'ie != lo'ei)

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, John Cowan wrote:

> Invent Yourself scripsit:
>
> > How about "mi nitcu 1 mikce"? Since there is no doctor in mind, and this
> > is unspecific across all doctors, any single doctor will do;
>
> Nope again. That means "There exists an X such that X is a doctor and I
> need X, and for every Y that meets those conditions, Y is identical with X."
> So there are two ways to falsify this: one is if you reject every doctor,
> the other is if you accept two or more distinct doctors.



Let's see this.

(le cpedu) mi nitcu 1 mikce
(le tercpe) .uo .i mi jarco la spak. poi mikce
(le cpedu) .uonai .i'enai .i mi nitcu 1 mikce

This makes no sense, because Dr. Spock is a doctor. It only makes sense if
line 3 is:

(le cpedu) .uonai .i'enai .i mi nitcu 1 mikce ba'e poi broda

I say by not specifying what sort of doctor he needs, or even indicating
that there are unspoken in-mind restriction conditions, he is asking for
any doctor.



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