Re: [lojban] Re: assignment affected by context

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:
> But {lo djacu} necessarily becomes {lo se pinxe}, then. OK, fair enough.

How necessarily? "pimu lo djacu goi ko'a" would be equivalent to "pimu
ko'a goi lo djacu", and from "pinxe pimu ko'a" it may follow that
"pinxe ko'a". That will depend on the detailed semantics of "pinxe".
From "pinxe pino ko'a" it won't follow that "pinxe ko'a".

How much of something you need to drink in order to conclude that you
have drunk that something is not a matter to be decided by logic. As a
general rule, you can't conclude "ko'a broda" from "piPA ko'a broda".
It depends on the particular choice of PA and the particular choice of
"broda". (Maybe on the choice of "ko'a" too.)

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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