Re: [jboske] loi'e & truthconditions (was: RE: carving the lo'e debate into shape

[Adam Raizen <araizen@cs.huji.ac.il>]

de'i li 2002-10-25 ti'u li 11:12:00 la'o zoi. And Rosta .zoi cusku di'e

>The problem is that in the world as we usually conceive it to be, 
>there is not just one lion. So {da kalte loi'e cinfo} is simply
>not a claim about the world as we usually conceive it. It's a
>claim about a version of the world as we usually conceive it, but
>where there is just one lion. In that world, {da kalte loi'e
>cinfo} is true iff someone hunts the one lion.

If, e.g., lions are on the brink of extinction due to hunting, I 
think that 'da kalte loi'e cinfo' is true (taking that 'da' as 
something like 'le gunma poi kalte').

mu'o mi'e .adam.