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Re: [lojban] the set of answers



(I've got to start doing these at 3am when I am awake (unwillingly), not at
8pm when I am falling asleep)

In a message dated 9/4/2001 8:30:01 PM Central Daylight Time,
jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:


>{la bab dunli la bil lo ni ce'u clano}, {la dubias frica la tclsys lo mamte
>be ce'u}

That would require {la dubias frica la tclsys la babras}. It doesn't
sound right to me.

The same goes for the others: {la bab dunli la bil li xapi'emu}?


No, it wouldn't, any more than the {ka} requires that they differ in {le ka
le babras mamte la dubias}.  The 3rd place is a *function* -- from people to
truth values in one case, from people to people in the other -- and dubias
and tclsys differ precisely in that they give different value as arguments to
these functions.  So, if you accept
{la dubias frica la tclsys lo ka makau mamte ce'u} or specifically {la dubias
frica la tclsys le ka la babras mamte ce'u} then you have to accept {la
dubias frica la tclsys le mamte be ce'u} on the same principle.  Of course, I
am not sure you completely accept the beginning stages of this argument.