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Re: [lojban] "knowledge as to who saw who" readings




la pycyn cusku di'e

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   su'o da poi grute ku'o su'o de poi pelxu zo'u da du de
   For some x which is a fruit and some y which is yellow, x=y.

Is that about reference?>

Yep; it says that the two approaches end up referring to the same thing.

I must be misusing "reference" then. To me that sentence has the
same sense as {su'o da grute gi'e pelxu}, and I perceive no
reference there, it's a statement about the world, but not
about any of its things in particular. How do we call the
reference that occurs in a term like {ko'a}, as opposed to
this "reference" of {su'o da} that doesn't point to anything?
This is just meant as a question of vocabulary.

mu'o mi'e xorxes




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