Re: mei again

[snark!cowan@gvls1.VFL.Paramax.COM (John Cowan)]

> >>there simply is no (surface) predicate with the
> >>place structure "x1 is a mass whose components are x2, x3, x4 ...".
> >
> >This is true on its face, though gunma is quite similar.  Perhaps
> >on could treat "melu'o" as being a predicate with this place structure.
> >
> >lojbab
> 
> Is it now true that the place structure we have given mei meets this need
> by matching x1 and x3?

No.  This is a "jutsi"-type predicate, with an arbitrary number of arguments,
and we don't have those in Lojban.  Where we might need them, we use
logical or non-logical connectives instead.  But in order to >explain<
non-logical connectives, we can >postulate< such predicates in "deep
Lojban" even though they don't exist in "surface Lojban".

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