Re: [lojban] zo'e interpretation

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/29/2001 7:42:03 PM Central Daylight Time, a.rosta@ntlworld.com writes:

While accepting that such moves aren't part of Lojban, I am
nonetheless a proponent of such moves, and I don't accept that they
can't be stuck to. I won't go into details of what I propose, but
the essence is that the zo'e is interpreted so as to be equivalent
to the weakest possible claim, and that the weakest possible claim
can be griceanly strengthened until it achieves relevance.

Well, they don't seem to get stuck to so far (can't even get people to decide on what to do with {ce'u} in {ka}). Taking {zo'e} as a mere existential quantifier or so can be strengthened griceanly, but that will not be the sort of thing that is wanted, because gricean solution are just the sort of thing that the restorers don't like: they are contextual and depend upon the belief web.