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[lojban-beginners] Re: How versatile is "nu"?



On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:37 PM, chris kerr <letsclimbhigher@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, is having {jei} redundant in this sense? Is there ever a
> time when you need "the truth value of" and "whether" won't do?
>

  Of course there is.  Consider, for example, all those Smullyanesque
logic puzzles, where the answer is something like, "If I were to ask
you if the truth value of your answer is the same as the truth value
of "The dragon behind the second door?", what would you say?"

        --gejyspa