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[lojban] Re: na scope. Again.



On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

The three meanings can be unambiguously expressed thusly:

(1) mi ge na nelci gi djica
(2) mi ge na nelci gi na djica
(3) mi na ge nelci gi djica

<snip>

I don't see a semantic difference between (2) and (3); am I missing
something?

{mi na ge nelci gi djica} is "It is not that case that I both like
and want," so (by DeMorgan's Law) {mi ga na nelci gi na djica}.  mu'a, if {mi
ja'a nelci .ije mi na djica} then 2 is false, but 3 is true.
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Adam Lopresto
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