Re: [jboske] Quantifiers, Existential Import, and all that stuff

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

la lojbab cusku di'e

> Nothing new is needed, if Aristotle satisfies.  I believe that {me'iro da
> broda cu brode} is a literal translation of the Aristotle approach.

(What's {da} doing there?)

 me'iro broda cu brode
= su'o broda naku brode
= da'asu'o broda cu brode

Yes, that works. But they are all false if the set of broda
is empty, so I don't know whether Aristotle or pc would approve.

I think the default for {me'i} should be {me'iro}, and the
default for {da'a} should be {da'asu'o}, so that we could
simply say {me'i broda} or {da'a broda} there.

> (Of course we could get into philosophical hot water if we debate whether
> "not all" = "less than all" if "all" refers to something that does not
> exist, but I'll leave that to someone else %^).

Only if you take "all" to have existential import. Otherwise
there is no hot water.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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