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

[tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com>]

On 6 November 2011 15:10, Martin Bays <mbays@sdf.org> wrote:
> e.g. {su'o ctuca cu tavla ro le tadni}, uttered in a context in which we
> might utter "A professor talked to all the students", can be taken two
> ways. It could be the EA statement that there was a single (mundane)
> professor who talked to all the students. But it could be the EA
> statement that there was a single *kind* of professor who talked to all
> the students. The latter would hold under e.g. the AE assumption that
> each student was talked to by some logic professor.

Are you saying that "a single professor" and "a professor of a single
kind" are mutually exclusive?

mu'o

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