[lojban] Re: elliptical sentences

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

ok, so what do you mean by "lo is veridical"?  I didn't know what the word meant and went to http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3Averidical which says stuff about "coinciding with reality" which as you said, "[lo] says nothing about describing or existing".  So what do you mean when you say "lo is and always has been veridical"?

 - Luke Bergen

2009/7/28 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Luke Bergen<lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I understood that to mean that if I say "mi viska lo pavyseljirna" that I am
> not saying "I see a unicorn which really exists" but rather that I am saying
> "I see some thing which I describe as 'a unicorn'".  Am I misunderstanding
> that?

It means "I see a unicorn" or "I see unicorns". There is nothing said
about describing or existing. Of course, things that don't exist are
hard to see, but that has nothing to do with "lo". "mi pensi lo
pavyseljirna" means "I think about unicorns", which is easier than
seeing them, and again has nothing to do with existence.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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