[lojban-beginners] Re: "tavla lo na'e te djuno", talking to the unknown,...

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

ahhhhhh, perfect.  That makes sense.  That also explains why "other than" seemed to imply the trueness of "Y" in such a loose way.  Because it does so indirectly.  

ki'e

 - Luke Bergen

2009/7/28 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Luke Bergen<lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> hmmm, so does "X other than Y" imply that "Y"?

"Other than" doesn't really work as a sentence connective, so if "X"
and "Y" are sentences, then "X other than Y" is not meaningful, and it
can't imply Y.

> When I try to think of solid
> examples it seems like it does, but looking at it in the form "X other than
> Y" it looks like it really wouldn't.

Suppose X = "snow is white", Y = "the sky is blue". "X other than Y" =
"Snow is white other than the sky is blue" is not meaningful, so it
can't imply "the sky is blue".

"X other than Y" seems to work only if X is some quantified _expression_
like "some ...", "every ...", "no ...", or a question "what ...", and
Y is one or more instances of the "...": "every dog other than Spot",
"no car other than mine", "some person other than John", etc.

"What do you do other than being loved" presupposes that "being loved"
is one instance of the things you do, and the question asks for other
instances of things you do.

mu'o mi'e xorxes