Re: [lojban] Meaning of multiple negations

["John E. Clifford" <kali9putra@yahoo.com>]

Ditto (the second part) for most scope issues, especially right hand ends.  The difficulties here are a major reason why attempts to translate back from Lojban to predicate logic either fail or are much more complicated than one would expect.

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On Jul 22, 2011, at 17:38, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:40 PM, .arpis. <rpglover64+jbobau@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So is this something that has a correct and accepted and confusing answer,
>> or is this something still under active discussion?
> 
> If by "this" you mean multiple negations, it has a clear answer: na na = ja'a.
> 
> Or, as in your example: naku no da = naku naku su'o da = [ja'a ku] su'o da.
> 
> But if by "this" you mean the scope of "na", it has a correct and
> simple answer, but not official, and another answer that is incorrect,
> confusing and official.
> 
> mu'o mi'e xorxes
> 
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