Re: any and all

["John E. Clifford" <pcliffje@CRL.COM>]

I came in late on this thread, but the examples I have seen, with nitcu,
do not look particularly "any" ish.  In modal (intentional) and negative
contexts (both of which nitcu -- or at least "need" -- is) "any' behaves
like tight-scope "a";  "I need any box" amounts to just "I need a box",
provided that it is clear that it is not a particular box but any old one
will do.  I suspect there is some infection in the example from the
notion of "all the boxes I can get" which might be expressed by "any
boxes you have" or so.  I suspect that that is about some enough-ad of
boxes (drat, I wish I was remembering lexes again) or just "enough x such
that x is a box".  "Any" is a pain: a context-leaper in some cases to
become a wide-scope universal (and that would be nice to have in Lojban,
if we do not have it already -- or is it the tight-scope one we need?)
and in other cases, as here, a tight-scope particular.  Cf Vendler's
article in Encyclopedia of Philosophy (isthat where all this started?)
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