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.
They
don't get stuck to because there is -- deliberately -- no rule to stick to. I
think the remarks in your text are a bit misleading if it is not said that
gricean solutions don't count.
--And.
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