Re: [lojban] tautologies

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/12/2002 12:41:59 PM Central Standard Time, lee@piclab.com writes:

Ah, but there is a rule/requirement: the _expression_ "I buy it no matter
the cost" implies a "usual" rule that we buy things when the price is
good, and that this particular purchase is an exception to that normal
rule.  I'm mentioning the rule explicitly rather than by implication.

Then shouldn't this be {ja'inai}?  The exception to a rule is not a rule, as a rule.

<It is usually translated as "there exists",
but that doesn't mean it actually expresses existence as such. >

Well, in the world under discussion it does.

<.  But
I think you're right that there should be a better way to express
indifference about the amount itself, although I can't think of it
offhand ({ni jdima .oicu'i} doesn't seem quite right either).>

This is the problem that got this particular fiber ot this thread off, so at the moment nobody knows how to say it with any certainty.