Re: [lojban-beginners] Just to double check, about {da} and quantifiers

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

2011/5/31 Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipeg.assis@gmail.com>:
> 2011/5/30 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 7:48 PM, .arpis. <rpglover64+jbobau@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Specifically, in the restricted case,
>>> (assuming there are no cat-dogs in the universe) what does {ro da poi ke'a
>>> gerku je mlatu cu broda} mean?
>>
>> It means:
>>
>>   ro da zo'u ganai da gerku je mlatu gi da broda
>>
>> it means that whether there are cat-dogs or not.
>>
>
> But this contradicts the Book! The opposite is very clearly stated in
> Chapter 16, Section 8.

The Book says some strange things when it comes to logic.

> I also think that this problem of reference is precisely the same of
> {lo no}, isn't it?

No reference is involved here, it's pure quantification.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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