Re: [jboske] factivity of nu

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

And Rosta scripsit:

> So for you, x1 is not the event itself -- the flux in the configuration
> of matter and energy that we call, say, 'sneezing'?

Just so.

> > Its role are analogous to the role of ckaji, which is a meta-predicate
> > saying whether something has or doesn't have a certain property
> 
> This is not how I had understood fasnu. Indeed, would the need for your
> interpreted of fasnu arise if you didn't treat nu as noematic?

No, it wouldn't. I said long ago that the x1s of NUs are +abstract,
and you wanted to know what that meant. This is what I meant: they are
+noematic, as opposed to the x1s of the other predicates in Lojban,
which are (generally speaking) -noematic -- there are exceptions,
as always, like "x1 is noematic". 1/2 :-)

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