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[lojban] Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: About the negators



On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   I suggest this conversation has now grown well beyond the limits of
> lojban-beginners list.

(I am responding in lojban-list.)

> Suffice it to say that while the use of na is
> well-defined in simple bridi, its meaning in very complicated sentence with
> both existential qualifiers and bridi tails is not well-defined.

If {su'o da na broda gi'e brode} counts as a "very complicated
sentence", then the characterization of Lojban as "spoken predicate
logic" is almost a sham. The relative scopes of quantifiers, logical
connectives and negation should be very straightforward.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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