Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: ci lo gerku vs lo ci gerku

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:57 AM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Reason 2: You can't sensibly mean to refer to something which is-dog
>> which is-none.
>
>   But why not?

Because if something is dog, then it is some, not none. That's what
the "some", in "something" stands for. If you are referring to
something, you are referring to something, not to nothing.

What you are saying is that "lo no gerku" is a non-referring term, a
term without any referents. Standard predicate logic doesn't have that
kind of term, because interpreting a sentence consists (in part) in
assigning referrents to each term.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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