Re: [lojban] John Cowan's view on reification

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

This is actually BPFK business, so the rest of you can ignore it.

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:18:27PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> 
> My view on Lojban's view of reification:
> 
> Everything that a sumti refers to, not within the scope of a
> negation, is reified.  That includes abstract le nu/lo nu things,
> le'e things, lo'e things, and the works.  You may perhaps find an
> exception to this general principle, but I can probably explain it
> away.
> 
> Ya happy now, rlpowell?

As long as that means you're comfortable with (in xorlo) the idea
that {re lo ci broda} is one broda and {re loi ci broda} is six
broda, and as long as xorxes feels his outstanding questions to you
have been answered, yep.

-Robin

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