Re: [lojban] ca'e

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/3/2001 3:58:27 PM Central Standard Time,
graywyvern@hotmail.com writes:

>I'm never sure how to make any sense of {ca'e}.

i use it to mean something like: "i define..." or "i posit...";
i.e. to introduce a term or a premise to be argued from, or to
make an assertion without nesting it inside XUSRA.

i don't think it can be used to "prove" anything.

Hell, it can't even be used to assert anything; it just gives your bona fides
for some assertion.  So it can be used to postulate things either (or {ru'a}
can't, at least officially -- are we about to do a using odd grammar to fill
a need here?)  In any case, none of these guys, UI2, can do duty for {xusra}
or any other brivla (one of the oldest screw-ups in theLoglan/Lojban book).