* Wednesday, 2011-10-19 at 03:56 +0100 - And Rosta <and.rosta@gmail.com>:
> Martin Bays, On 18/10/2011 04:31:
> > * Monday, 2011-10-17 at 01:40 +0100 - And Rosta<and.rosta@gmail.com>:
> >>> (i) with this definition, {loi} is very close to Chierchia's version of
> >>> the iota operator, which is his explanation of "the": when applied to
> >>> a predicate in a domain, it gives the maximal plurality in the domain
> >>> which satisfies the predicate if there is a unique such (as there is
> >>> with a distributive predicate like a noun). For this to coexist with
> >>> normal quantification, the domain should be some glorked subdomain of
> >>> the full domain.
> >>
> >> Why some glorked subdomain, rather than just the full domain?
> >
> > Having it with the full domain would essentially replicate the
> > functionality of {pi ro broda}.
>
> Is there consensus on what fractional quantifiers should mean?
Not to my knowledge.
> I find it hard to think of an valid argument for piro being distinct from ro.
There seems to be at least some consensus that {ro} is a singular
quantifier. {piPA} has tended to be used for other things.
If {pi za'u} is to be a plural existential quantifier, which it would be
very useful for it to be, then it seems we're obliged to have {pi ro
ko'a} == {ko'a} (just a null-op), and have {pi ro broda} being, for
distributive broda, the plurality formed from the extension of broda.
For non-distributive broda, it's less clear.
> >>> So maybe {loi} should actually be defined like that. {loi cinfo} means
> >>> precisely the same thing as "the lions".
> >>
> >> I think "the lions" would mean {lei cinfo}, actually, but that's
> >> a point about English, and doesn't contradict your underlying point.
> >
> > Just making a veridiciality distinction? Or specificity too?
>
> I don't know how sclerotic my thinking is, but I'm thinking "the
> lions" is {lo co'e voi cinfo} (or maybe also your {loi co'e voi
> cinfo}) and "le broda" is "lo co'e voi broda" (and "lei broda" "lei
> co'e voi broda").
So just adding non-veridiciality?
Martin
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