Re: [lojban] Re: How do you feel about this new usage?

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/12/2001 10:02:20 PM Central Daylight Time, xod@sixgirls.org writes:

.  i think you're
> really trying to say "x1 x2 dunli/simsa le ka parbi".  the
> tanru/lujvo just sort of abbreviates that.



This is an approximation of the English phrase "inasmuch as". Their truth
values are proprotional. Since all truth values are in [0, 1], I could
have just as well used bare dunli.

Also, x1 and x2 are jezbroda, of course. And instead of le ka parbi, it
could be le ni ce'u jetnu

I don't see how any of this means "inasmuch as,"  which I tend to equaate with the inferential "since."  Bare {dunli} would suggest that they have the same truth values, as would adding {le ni ce'u jetnu}.  So, what does "proportional" mean and how is it related to either givens or causes?