Re: [lojban] {da} and abstractions

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Thursday 12 July 2012 21:33:53 Jorge Llambías wrote:
> 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.

How about "xa lu'i re lo mu broda naku vasru li no"? (assuming that one of the 
five broda is 0)

Pierre

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