Re: [lojban] {zo'e} as close-scope existentially quantified plural variable

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

Focus! There are ( and always have been) problems with quantifiers and gadri, but let's try to get at least one gadri clear for a start.

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On Oct 21, 2011, at 0:12, Martin Bays <mbays@sdf.org> wrote:

> * Thursday, 2011-10-20 at 23:25 -0400 - Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>:
> 
>> On Thursday 20 October 2011 22:06:58 And Rosta wrote:
>>> When I was last up-to-date with developments, nothing was official, but I
>>> think I can recall the rudiments of our best efforts at that time to
>>> construct a consistent and rational gadri system. As far as I now recall,
>>> "half an apple" would be "lo pi mu plise", while "pi mu lo plise" would be
>>> the "one in every two apples" one.
>> 
>> If "pimu lo plise" means "one in every two apples", then "pa lo plise" should 
>> mean "every apple". I think "lo pimu plise" is "a half apple"
> 
> But {lo PA broda cu broda} is meant to be a tautology. Half-apples
> aren't apples.

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