Re: [lojban] Usage of logical connectives?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:36:38PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:50:43AM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> > 
> > la robyspir cusku di'e
> > 
> > >Since the truth value of a command is whether that command is carried out, 
> > >what
> > >would be wrong with:
> > >
> > >ko nicygau ledo kumfa .ijo do kakne lenu klama le panka
> > 
> > Probably {mi curmi le nu do klama le panka} is better than {kakne}.
> > 
> > It's not that the sentence is wrong, it is just that it doesn't
> > really have the intended meaning. It says that the two events
> > are true together or false together, it does not say that the
> > permission to go to the park is a consequence of the child
> > cleaning up the room, nor that the parent wants the child
> > to clean up the room. It doesn't say "I want you to clean up
> > your room, and your recompense for doing it will be my permission
> > to go to the park". Maybe the English doesn't really say all that
> > either, maybe it only implicates it, and we can do the same
> > in Lojban, but then our children won't learn to think
> > logically... :)
> 
> OK, so, then once again I have to ask:
> 
> What is the use of the logical connectives?  What information do they
> transmit to the user?

s/user/listener/

-Robin

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