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Re: [lojban] Re: On what there isn't



In a message dated 9/28/2002 7:21:26 PM Central Daylight Time, jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:

<<
I was just pointing out the parallels with my use of {lo'e}.
I didn't use the name because unfortunetely Lojban doesn't
treat names as predicates, but I could do it with {me}:

      i la xolmyz cu se nolgau lo'e me la viktorias
      i ku'i la viktorias na nolgau la xolmyz
>>
I wish that made {lo'e} a little clearer, but I still don't see why the claimed assymetry holds in the {lo'e} case (and am open to other treatments in the case of nonexistents).  Nor is the next analogy any clearer:
<<
>In particular, the Victoria we
>are talking about is the familiar one, not one of her surrogates in a book
>or
>elsewhere;

Correct. That's why I can only bring up the property of being her
(which is what lo'e does, but using that property, not referring
to that property), and not herself.
>>
The talk about using a property rather than referring to it has not gotten clearer over the weeks and this does not help -- why can't I refer to Victoria rather than to the property of being Victoria (and why would I want to refer to the latter)?

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