Re: [lojban] ce'u once again

[Invent Yourself <xod@sixgirls.org>]

On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Nick Nicholas wrote:

> Sorry to scratch old wounds, but I'm revising the lessons now that
> I've got a spare couple of days, and inevitably my discussion of {ka}
> comes up for review. I'd like people to have a look at it, now
> tempers have died down, and tell me if they think it coheres.
>
> In particular, a reviewer suggested to me that I can't claim a
> property applying to a specific individual is a fact, with the
> example "Fred's illness is more debilitating than George's". I agree,
> but would content 'illness' here is neither a fact nor a quality, but
> a state (i.e. an event); and if this was a non-stative event, like
> running (Fred's running is more debilitating than George's), we
> wouldn't even think this involved a quality.




le jei F ruble ri'a le F terbi'a cu zmadu le jei G ruble ri'a le G terbi'a




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