Re: [lojban] {da} and abstractions

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Jacob Errington <nictytan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm under the impression that this problem is on a higher level than
> simple LAhE. Really, it concerns all quantifiers. Which of the five
> elements in context are being referred to when we say that we're
> referring to two of them, as is the case in {re lo mu broda}.

Quantifiers don't refer to anything, they quantify a bridi. "re lo mu
broda" doesn't mean much outside of a bridi. "re lo mu broda cu brode"
says that exactly two of the five referents of "lo mu broda" satisfy
the predicate "brode". It says nothing about which two they are. The
problem with "lu'i re lo broda" is that we have a quantifier and a
domain of quantification, but no obvious bridi for it to quantify.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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