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Re: Anselmisms and gadro



> This is the age-old chestnut of Lojban's habit of conflating
> non-veridicality with specificity.  There's not much I can do about
that.
>
> ~mark

If you don't mind doing without gadri -- and they are
superfluous -- then disconflation is easy.

veridical & nonspecific:     da poi    [= lo]
veridical & specific:        ko'a poi
nonveridical & specific:     ko'a voi  [= le]

More generally, {da} (& co.) gives you nonspecifics, {ko'a}
(& co.) gives you specifics, and {voi} gives you the means to
make nonveridical descriptions.

 --And.