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Re: [lojban] Subjunctives and worlds



In a message dated 2/16/2002 4:53:58 PM Central Standard Time, jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:


Yes, {mu'ei} suggests "possibilities" the same way that {roi}
suggests "occasions", but determining exactly what an occasion
is would be about as hard as determining a possibility.


I assume they are all at least events, which is a class we are stuck with in any case (remember that all events exist even if they do not hold).  I assume that {mu'ei} as a tag takes {le nu}.  In any case, this is getting away from being about possible worlds to being about conditions, which seems the right way to go.

<To me {ba} does not
suggest a multiplicity of futures but only the one that gets
realized, so I could never get to an alternate present using
{puba}.>

Yes, people differ on that a lot: some see it one way, some the other, and some somewhere in between as a totally deterministic system (time might branch but doesn't).  The branching is built into SAE, but can be resisted locally.