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

John E Clifford, On 06/11/2011 20:08:

But of course your positiion is not SAE denying but rather another SAE case.
Ready Madeism, if I understand it, is no more a prioristic than Blobularism;
both are induced from experiences and language learning


It doesn't seem to me that Ready-Madeism is induced, or at least not on the basis of anything more than the most cursory consideration of experience and language; and instead it seems to be selected for its formalizability. I don't know if that's an egregious misrepresentation of history.


-- by Western trained linguists and so come up as SAE again (ditto
for semantics of natural languages, which have historically been
built on [linguists' understanding of ] formal logic).


If all contemporary linguists count as Western-trained.


It's all plugs and sockets and we just argue about what can be a plug.


Is a predicate a body of sockets, into which arguments plug? If so, then I'd argue that there's virtually nothing to say about plugs -- you need know nothing about them but their identity, so that you can tell whether two sockets do or don't share the same plug. And the argument is about something else.

--And.

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