Re: quantifiers

[John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>]

la pycyn. cusku di'e
 
> The argument goes that we have somehow gotten to the point where  _ro da
> poi broda_ = _ro lo broda_ = _ro broda_ and, since the first of these is
> given as having existential import, all the rest do too.
 
And I, on the other hand, believe that the three expressions are
equivalent and NONE of them has existential import; that nothing quantified
with "ro" (or "no", which is its dual) has existential import.
(I believe that jimcs also believes this.)
 
What are the arguments against this viewpoint?
 
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John Cowan                                      cowan@ccil.org
                e'osai ko sarji la lojban.