On Sunday, January 6, 2013, Annie wrote:
Goodness! The concept of selbri is way more complicated than I realized.
When I started learning Lojban, I got the concept of selbri thinking of them as set definitions.
So {plise} is the set of all apples. {klama} is the set of those going somewhere, {klama be lo zarci} is the set of those who go to a store (a smaller subset of {klama}), {klama be lo zarci be lo zdani} is the even smaller set of those who go to a store from an house.
A bridi states that x1 is part of the set defined by the selbri.
This view made simpler for me to move on and get the rest, I hope it can help you too.
For those versed in a more formal reasoning, this interpretation is supported by the fact that relations are a subset of the cartesian products of sets. In theory all sets are equally important but in Lojban the set that is used for the sumti place x1 is given a special treatment, thats why my interpretation attaches the other sumti places to the selbri first.Note that this is exactly what is done when we speak of "bridi tails".
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