Re: [lojban] An approach to attitudinals

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la djan cusku di'e

> That is the "propositional attitude" sense of "a'o".  But it too
> has a "pure emotion sense" as well:  "a'o mi cevni le du'u
                                             krici

> la cevni cu zasti" probably does not mean "I hope that I believe
> that God exists",

That's what I would understand from it.

> but rather "I believe that God exists
> (which gives me hope)."

If {a'o} can indeed have these two meanings then it is hopelessly
ambiguous. {a'o le truralju cu stace} "I hope the president is
honest", or "the president is honest, which gives me hope".
I have only seen it used with the first sense.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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