[lojban] Re: Hintikka on Quantifier Scope

[John E Clifford <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

--- 2 = 3 <xod@thestonecutters.net> wrote:
> John E Clifford wrote:
> 
> >I seem to recall something like this
> >was proposed once a long while ago using
> modified
> >Skolem functions in place of particular
> >quantifiers (and eventually groups -- bunches
> --
> >for value to make the numeric cases work). 
> >
> 
> It would be interesting to see the Skolem
> function proposal.
> 
> Loglan (!) gets round the issue by explicitly
> declaring the mapping, if 
> I recall correctly.
> 
I wonder if the proposal was not back in the
Loglan days; I can't find it in any Lojban
material I can search.  When I try to reconstruct
it, the plan that feels most familiar has a cmavo
sumti which takes subordinate arguments of the
variables or whatnot that govern it, on the order
of {foo be da bei gy (referring back lo gerku}
bei ko'a} and so on.  But I have no guarantee
that this faithfully reproduces the proposal (or,
come to that, that the proposal does not exist
only in my nonveridical memory).