* Saturday, 2011-10-15 at 17:32 -0300 - Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Martin Bays <mbays@sdf.org> wrote:
> >
> > Well, liking dogs is quite different from liking Fido, and also
> > different from liking almost all dogs, and from there being a high
> > probability that you would (come to) like a randomly chosen dog you were
> > presented with, and from anything else which reduces to talking about
> > individual dogs. I do think that it would be reasonable to use {nelci}
> > for this concept, but that it should be expressed by {nelci lo ka gerku}
> > rather than {nelci lo gerku}.
>
> The drawback of that approach is that you cannot combine predications
> that "resolve" differently. You can't say for example "I like lions,
> but they are destroying my garden", not as "mi nelci lo ka cinfo .i
> ku'i ri daspo lo mi purdi" anyway, because presumably you don't mean
> to say that a property is destroying your garden.
Probably I don't, although it arguably it might make some sense to do
so. The crucial thing is just that {lo ka cinfo cu cinfo} is false.
In any case, this drawback seems a rather small one to me.
Martin
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