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Re: [lojban] Request for grammar clarifications



In a message dated 5/31/2001 1:46:49 PM Central Daylight Time,
rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org writes:

<> <no da poi na du la .alsax. du lo pa cevni
>
> What's the problem?>
>  It's true if {noda du lo pa cevni} is and thus, inter alia, if there is
some
> number of cevni other than pa.

But the book says that sayng 'lo pa cevni' states that there is only one
god in the universe...>



Well, "states" is a little strong, since sumti don't state, but it doesmake
its basic sentence false if there is no god or more than one.  In those
cases, {A du lo pa cevni} is false for every A, thus {no da du lo pa cevni}
is true and so, a fortiori, is {no da poi li'o du lo pa cevni}