[lojban] Re: da poi du ro de ?

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Jorge Llamb?as scripsit:

> > If I say:
> > 
> > da poi du ro de zo'u da broda
> > 
> > Is that strictly equivalent to:
> > 
> > ro de zo'u de broda
> > 
> > In either case, why?
> 
> No. The first one says: that thing which is every thing, is a broda.
> Unless there is only one thing in the universe (and it brodas),
> then it can't be true.

No, you are over-interpreting "da" as "pa da" rather than the correct
"su'o da".  It says "Each of those things X which are all things Y
is a broda", which is the same as "Each thing Y is a broda".
The only exception is in the case of an empty universe, which we
can disregard.

-- 
Principles.  You can't say A is         John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
made of B or vice versa.  All mass      http://www.reutershealth.com
is interaction.  --Richard Feynman      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan


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