[lojban] Re: Duty, promice etc...

["Cyril Slobin" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

coi xorxes

> But it is {lo se bilga} that are the obligations, not {lo nu se bilga}.

> For example, giving you a bicycle might be my obligation,
> my being obliged to give you a bicycle is not my obligation.

Oh, THAT is the point. I believe that there is an important concept of
"my being obliged to give you a bicycle", whether or not it is
expressed by English word "obligation". And "giving you a bicycle" is,
er, the content, the result of dereferincing, the thing pointed by the
thing that I, by the lack of better word, call "obligation".

... CEKPETHOCTb 3AKOHOMEPHA, HO HEECTECTBEHHA ...

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