[lojban-beginners] Re: cmavo defanitions

["Matt Arnold" <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

Tim,

Consider the following English sentence:

"Either Natalie will arrive today, or Natalie has been and gone, or
Natalie will not arrive at all."

The connective "either" is a forethought connective, and "or" is an
afterthought connective. You have the ability to leave out "either"
and just say "Natalie will arrive today". But then you might have an
afterthought, and decide to add "Or Natalie has been and gone. Or
Natalie will not arrive at all today."

-epkat

On 8/5/06, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 10:36:12AM -0700, Timothy Hobbs wrote:
> > take this defanition as an example:
> >     Word: inaja [jbovlaste]
> >         Type: cmavo cluster
> >   Gloss Word: sentence only if
> >      selma'o: JA*
> >   Definition: logical connective: sentence afterthought conditional/only if
> >
> > what the heck do they mean by afterthought?
>
> The connective comes after the first sentence.
>
> http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/less11.html
>
> http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/less14.html
>
> See also the CLL chapter on logic.
>
> -Robin
>
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