[lojban] Re: outer and inner quantifiers on "le"

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

--- And:
> IMO {pi mu lei broda} should be equivalent to {(pa) fi'u re
> lei broda}, for nonequivalence might seem an insult to mathematics
> (though admittedly the existence of the mathematically suspect
> locution "pi ro" might imply nonequivalence -- but I would rather
> abolish "pi ro" as incoherent). But also IMO, {pa lei broda} would
> best be seen as an abbreviation of {pa fi'u ro lei broda}, "one out
> of all the broda". So it would follow that {pa fi'u re lei pa no no
> broda} should mean "one out of every two of the hundred broda", and
> then so should "pi mu lei pa no no broda".

Right, you wouldn't admit fractions of broda at all, just fractions
of numbers of broda.

But it is very hard to not interpret {pa pi mu lo plise} as
one and a half apples.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



		
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