[lojban-beginners] Re: cmavo can be selbri?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:28:01AM -0500, Adam D. Lopresto wrote:
> In general, I really wish du didn't even exist.  

Its sole valid use is in mekso:

li pa su'i re du li ci

In fact, "dunli" is not equivalent in meaning to "du"; that's
"mintu".  "dunli" has an "in property" place, which makes it rather
different.

The reason one can't entirely replace du with mintu is that du has
an infinite place structure.  The place structure is also a bit
different, having a "by standard" place.

"du" is really the only selbri that does *pure* identicality, and
pure identicality is only useful for tautologies and math.

-Robin

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