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

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

--- And:
> Anyway, the half-an-apple reading has some strange consequences:
> 
> pi mu (lo) plise cu se citka 
> = pi mu da poi plise cu se citka
> = pi mu da ge plise gi se citka  
> = "Half something is an apple and is eaten"
> 
> Now *that* looks like gobbledygook!

Yes, but it is still almost gobbledygook under the other 
interpretation: "one out of every two things is both an apple 
and is eaten".

The move from restricted to unrestricted quantificaton for 
fractional quantifiers, under any interpretation, won't work
like for regular quantifiers.
 
> Likewise, if {mi citka pi mu plise}, is the cardinality of {lo'i se citka
> plise} 0.5? Hardly.

That doesn't bother me so much, it is a reasonable extension of the
idea of cardinality.

It seems to me that any convention we adopt will have its unintuitive
side, so it's just a question of what is more useful. 

mu'o mi'e xorxes



		
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