Re: [lojban] Explicit non-restriction

[Daniel Brockman <dbrockman@gmail.com>]

>> Here's what I meant by "restricted to being each thing":
>>
>> In {ro da zo'u ma poi me da cu broda}, {ma} is being restricted
>> a number of times simultaneously --- namely, once for each
>> referent of {da}.  Maybe mixing a question and a quantification
>> like this is a little weird, but I would assume that an answer
>> would have to satisfy every referent of {da} to be correct.
>
> Right, and the only way that something can be each and every thing is
> in a universe with only that one thing.

Yeah, exactly.  So in a way, {ro da zo'u do nelci ma poi me da}
is a question about which universe of discourse makes the
claim {do nelci ro da} true.  Haha.  Weird and backwards.

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