[lojban] Re: A (rather long) discussion of {all}

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

How much formal semantics do you know?  What version are you most familiar with, if any?  I am
trying to find some common background that would be adequate to explain both your psoition and
xorxes' in a single framework.  I thought it could be done in ordinary talk, but xorxes' efforts
along that line suggest that it cannot be.  Incidentally (well, not really), when we get done with
all the xplanation it wills till turn out that the two ways of talking are equivalent, that for
every sentence of one there is another sentence (often outwardly identical)that is true in exactly
the same situations (necessarily).  

--- Maxim Katcharov <maxim.katcharov@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/10/06, Jorge Llamb�as <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/10/06, Maxim Katcharov <maxim.katcharov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > What's a plural variable?
> >
> > A variable that can have more than one referent at the same time.
> >
> > > I point out that again, you're not offering any sort of explanation of
> > > 'non-distributive', you're simply assuming that it exists.
> >
> > All right then, we'll just have to leave it at that. I'm afraid my pedagogical
> > resources are exhausted.
> >
> 
> I don't think that you've explained anything, though you've certainly
> repeated "plural predication exists" many, many times. I take your
> inability to explain your position as a sign that your position isn't
> based on something explicable. If you do think that you've offered an
> explanation of plural predication, let me know where it is. I would
> hate to have your exchanges end and have missed it.
> 
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