Re: [lojban] a construal of lo'e & le'e

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/31/2001 11:00:12 AM Central Standard Time, arosta@uclan.ac.uk writes:

I still think that discussion of this "peculiar rule" had best wait until the
Elephant, but in the meantime you could see whether you could
formulate rules that unambiguously determine quantifier scope for any
... erm ... sentence (replace with better word if you can think of one).
That is, rules that could be written up in a textbook and applied to
novel sentences, ideally by something as mechanical as a computer.
Then, come the Elephant, those rules could serve as a basis for
discussion.

It's not clear to me what the Elephant will find -- except that you have said this before (as we already knew), but, as a start at such rules, see my note about what "sentence" means in Lojban a couple of days back (repeating an earlier reply to you, I think).