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

["Jorge Llambías" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 7/11/06, Maxim Katcharov <maxim.katcharov@gmail.com> wrote:
>  Also, I've mentioned it before,
> but if we're not referring to any one of the students in "the students
> surround the building", then what is being considered?

But we are referring to each of the students. What we are not doing is
claiming, of each of the students, that they surround the building. There
is a difference between "refer" (that's what sumti are used for, to refer) and
"claim" (that's what selbri are used for, to claim something of the things
we refer to with the sumti). We may refer with one sumti to several things
at the same time, and in the same sentence not claim anything about each
of the things we refer to, but only make a claim about all the things we
referred to together.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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