[lojban] Re: Holiday Present from the BPFK: The gadri Proposal Has Been Completed

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- And Rosta wrote:
> This said, I don't understand how come "ci lo vo nanmu" quantifies
> over the four referents of "lo vo nanmu", yet "ci loi vo nanmu"
> quantifies not over the one referent of "loi vo nanmu" 

We don't know in general that {loi vo nanmu} has a single referent.
All we know is that its referent(s) is/are quartets of men.
{loi vo nanmu} = {lo gunma be lo vo nanmu}, and for any broda
in general the number of referents of {lo broda} is not 
specified. 

> but
> rather over the quasi-infinite number of things that "loi vo
> nanmu" can refer to. It's not that I see anything objectionable
> to this -- indeed, it's expressively a good thing -- but I don't
> understand the basis for the claim about PA me <sumti>.

{loi PA broda} behaves like {lo gunma be lo PA broda}, but
because it is a more compact notation it doesn't have a place
to indicate the number of its referents, whereas {lo gunma} does.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



		
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