Re: [lojban] Re: [loglanists] Sets

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

pycyn@aol.com scripsit:

> <Lojban takes the second view, since both forms can be expressed:
> one using number + predicate directly (= "All swans"), the other
> using a bound variable and a relative clause ("All X such that").>
> 
> At last!  Can I take this as the official word?  No more changing next week, 
> when I try to rely on this?  No smooth-talking logicians muddying the water?

Well, let's say that you and I take this view.

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John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_