Re: [lojban] Re: [lojban-beginners] Non-logical AND in Tanru?

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/16/2002 4:59:53 PM Central Standard Time, thanatos@dim.com writes:

>But the
>ones I was mainly focusing on were ones like {cmalu xanto} where the object
>that is the {cmalu} cannot be isolated from the {xanto}, without problems;

Well, in a contrived example, if we were sorting our menagerie into two
groups, one with a large number of total animals and one with a small
number of total animals, the way in which the elephant is cmalu may be
that it belongs to the smaller group. 

You have a twisted mind -- Lojban like that in a user.  Yeah, this would work.

<>that is, the broda does have its places filled implicitly but not in
>isolation.  I took the isolation claim to be the likely next step in your
>reasoning and wanted to stop it beforehand.

The places of broda are filled by zo'e, which draws from a larger
context than just the current bridi, as does the co'e implicit in the
tanru.  We're still claiming {ta poi xanto cu co'e zo'e poi cmalu}
implicitly with {ta cmalu xanto}, though.>

Remote but OK. Disambiguation has a lot of work to do here, probably changing the structure in the process.