Re: [lojban] Lions and levels and the like

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:50 AM, maikxlx <maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:37 PM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I don't find either "Dogs are mammals" or "Man walked on the Moon" in any
>> way odd.
>
> As I tried to convey in my reply to Pierre Abbat, it's just a little odd
> that that in the former case we have a necessary universal situation and in
> the latter case we have a marginal existential situation, and yet in Lojban
> both have (or are allowed to have) exactly the same logical form.  Maybe not
> odd, but curious at least.

Similarly curious are "Merkel is a woman" and "Merkel had a beer",
with the same logical form even though in one case we have a universal
situation and in the other an existential one.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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