[lojban] Re: le du

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>]

xorxes:
> --- Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:11:25AM -0700, Jorge Llambmas wrote:
> > > Is there any brivla with even less content that will do instead?
> > [...]
> > 
> > Yes.  {co'e}.
> 
> But {co'e} is heavily context dependant. {ro da du de} is always
> true. {ro da co'e de} may be true or false, depending on context:
> before we can evaluate it we need to work out what co'e stands for 
> in this case and then see whether it holds for everything. 

The original question can be reposed as: What fills the gap in the
following pattern?

go'a-series  : ra-series
broda-series : ke'a-series
bu'a-series  : da-series
co'e         : ???????
 
> Another possibility we have not yet considered is {le bu'a}.

We have not considered the more general question of what bu'a
means when not quantified in the prenex. Personally, I would
see it as the brivla equivalent of ce'u, in which case it wouldn't
be equivalent to {le du}.

--And.