Re: [lojban-beginners] how to use {fancu}?

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Jacob Errington <nictytan@gmail.com> wrote:

On 17 September 2014 11:23, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:

 "fancu" ought to have just two places: "x1 is a function of x2".

 In that case, I wonder what the type of the x1 could be. Is it a function in the sense of a ka abstraction? I would find this strikingly useful. Alas, that's not what you used for your example. I think I would have written it ".i lo ka makau jdima ce'u cu fancu lo ni ce'u se sabji gijo'u jai se cpedu".

I think it can work both ways: property function of property, or thing function of thing. 

The major limitation here is that there's no obvious way to actually refer to the things themselves, so the place for the domain becomes useful with this formalism, since saying that this function actually applies to some concrete object would amount to stating that the object is in the domain of this function.

Not sure I follow what you have in mind.

 

This also gives us a neat way of saying things like "How likely I am to do something depends on how much I want to do it," as ".i lo ni lakne fa lo nu mi ce'u zukte cu fancu lo ni mi djica co zukte ce'u" all the while avoiding lo-sumti altogether, simply talking about how these functions relate.

Right.  

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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