[lojban-beginners] Re: Question around beginner's chapter 4

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

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 01:40:43PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> The other combinations are also not much used, but possible. {lo
> ci le gerku} is three of the dogs, but not necessarily three
> specific ones that I have in mind.
> 
> {lo ci lo gerku} is just three dogs. Indistinguishable from {lo ci
> gerku} if we don't require the inner quantifier to be all the dogs
> that there are in the world.
> 
> {le ci lo gerku} is the three dogs I have in mind.
> Indistinguishable, from {le ci gerku} as far as I can tell.

*CAREFUL*!

xorlo isn't final yet, you know!

To the original poster: the interpretation based above is
provisional; we are still working out the details.  The strict CLL
interpretation is:

lo ci le gerku == Any of the three things that really are things
that may or may not be dogs and that you have in mind.  Note that
this says that there are *only* three such things in the universe
(which in this case isn't *too* bad).

lo ci lo gerku == Any of the three things that really are dogs;
there are only three.  As xorxes says, equivalent to lo ci gerku.

{le ci lo gerku} is as xorxes says.

-Robin

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