Re: [lojban-beginners] Major flaw in Lojban ! (was:Pivotal sentences in Pandunia. How to express them in Lojban ?)

[Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipeg.assis@gmail.com>]

On 16 March 2012 17:03, Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipeg.assis@gmail.com> wrote:
> By the way, I never understood why nu-abstractions are used in djica2.
> There is no specific event you desire for. You just want an event with certain
> properties to happen. Maybe the more abstract {du'u} would express that?

On a more logical level, there is a problem when you try to express desire
for something impossible. That is
 1. Let broda be a predication that is impossible to hold, even in hypothetical
     worlds, such as a logical contradiction.
 2. Let ko'a be a subject with so little grasp of logic that ko'a can not
     understand that broda is impossible, and naively wants broda.
How would the speaker express that ko'a wants broda? He can't say
{lo nu broda}, because there is no event of broda. There is no problem
with the existence of the predication broda, on the other hand.

mu'o
mi'e .asiz.

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