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

[And Rosta <and.rosta@gmail.com>]

Martin Bays, On 24/10/2011 16:14:
> * Sunday, 2011-10-23 at 18:57 -0400 - John E. Clifford<kali9putra@yahoo.com>:
> > On kinds, my position is just that kinds (if you want to use that
> > word) are just biggest bunches viewed in certain ways and so call for
> > nothing other than things of the ordinary sort.
>
> I seem to be in agreement. But I guess no-one else is, so far.

I don't think me and xorxes disagree with you and John. If there is disagreement, it is over how many are in the biggest bunches. You, I gather, would say that there is only one possible cardinality for the biggest bunch of broda, whereas xorxes and I would say that the universe, or universe of discourse, can be understood in infinitely many different ways, such that across these different ways the cardinality for the biggest bunch of broda varies from one to infinity. I think xorxes and me would also say that this holds also of referents of {la}, and also pronouns like {mi, do}, and that these biggest bunches are treated like individuals.

--And.

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