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:
>
> > 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.
>
> You might as well say that "lo xirma cu blabi" means "Any horse is white".
> It doesn't and that's that.



ca'epei .i'acu'i

Help me follow your logic. This list insists that lo xirma is not
specific. Then, lo xirma doesn't refer to a particular horse that you had
in mind. It refers to any one or more horse(s). Where am I going wrong
here? If the horse(s) is/are not restricted to a specific subset of the
existing horses, then the statement ranges over all horses.



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