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Re: [jboske] inner quantifier of e-gadri (was: RE: putative tense scope effects



In a message dated 11/7/2002 5:25:13 AM Central Standard Time, cowan@ccil.org writes:
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it cannot be the set of zero in-mind things,
because you cannot have no things in mind: le'i no broda is as bad
as le no broda.

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That is actually my usual state.  But more to the point, of course you can, though I don't think that you can do it knowing that they aren't: e.g., Sherlock Holmes or the 20th Dalai Lama.

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> That may be right, but my recollection is that it was picked in the belief
> (over my objection, of course) that {ro} included 0.

I certainly didn't think so when I was writing CLL.
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Which was at least two years after the discussion -- live and learn.