In a message dated 2/18/2002 7:20:35 PM Central Standard Time, jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:
>This clash can be resolved in one of two ways: decide that "All swans
>are white" has no existential import either, or decide that "For all X
>etc." is not a fully adequate mapping of "All swans etc."
>Lojban takes the second view,
Not my dialect of Lojban! For me {ro broda naku} is equivalent to
{naku su'o broda}, which would fail if {ro broda} had existential
import.
Damn! Couldn't you let me think this blister had been pricked for five fing minutes?
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