Re: A couple of questions

[Jorge Llambias <jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU>]

And:
> Iain (replying to Lojbab):
> >  (1) {lo mlatu je nanmu cu blanu}
> > - I can't think of any interpretation of (1)
> > which doesn't imply existence.
>
> Without wanting to disagree with you, I can think of a possibly
> valid interpretation that doesn't imply existence.
> "ro mlatu je nanmu cu blanu" doesn't imply existence, & we
> can gloss this as "100% of catmen are blue".

Agreed.

> We might therefore take "lo mlatu je nanmu cu blanu" to mean
> "more than 0% of catmen are blue", again not implying existence.

But {lo} has an "at least one" quantifier, not "at least some %".
Otherwise, su'o doesn't work as the negation of ro.

Jorge