On 5/12/06, Maxim Katcharov <maxim.katcharov@gmail.com> wrote:
I never said that I want to refer to "all bears" unconstrained by anything, in fact I've stated that this would usually be the wrong thing to do - but that shouldn't mean that one can't do it. No, the utility of my inner {ro} is much more obvious when taken in the context of the "all bears in the cage" example (which is an "actual" example, and which you seem to have ignored), where the referant is constrained by something more than "that which is a bear" (e.g. "that which is a bear, and that which is in /that/ cage").
That would be {lo ro cribe poi nenri le va selri'u}. It would probably not include bears that were before or will be later in the cage (although I can imagine contexts that would make those relevant, as in "all bears in that cage always end up getting sick, there must be something wrong with it"). Much less likely would it be that it includes imaginary bears that are in the cage, though again it would be possible to force it with some strong context: "Imagine that that cage is full of bears. Now imagine that all the bears in that cage suddenly turn into monkeys...." I don't think an expression that in every possible circumstance includes all those bears would be particularly useful. mu'o mi'e xorxes