| {zi'o} first came to marked attention on this list when somneone notice that
the definition of {botpi} "bottle" involved a content and a cap, which a bottle by the side of the road typically lacked. So what was that bottle? Not exactly {botpi} since that gave an unspecified content, cap (and made-of material) nor {botpi noda fo noda} since it didn't contain nothing, just air and maybe a little water, neither of which was relevant to its being a bottle. So, in place of the set of four-tuples <object, content, material, cap> that was the referent class of {botpi}, we looked for a two-tuple < object, material> that would work for "bottle" as in English. And the way to name that relation was just to get rid of the references to content and cap: {zi'o} . Clearly, for any a,c such that <a,b,c, d> satisfies {botpi} , <a,c> satisfies {botpi zi'o fo zi'o}. Equally obviously, the converse does not hold: that bottle by the side of the road has neither content nor cap and so satisfies the elided predicate but not the full one. Similarly, {klama fi zio zi'o} is a new predicate, referencing a new relation, that is perhaps only incidentally related to {klama} in th sense outline above for {botpi}. It may be a mistake to even thing of it as a going. But it is more general only in the sense that more cases may fall under it, not that by itself it expresses a generalization of behavior. |