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Re: [lojban] Revising mu'ei and CAhA once again. Possible worlds.





On Tuesday, August 7, 2012 2:34:44 AM UTC+4, xorxes wrote:
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Gleki Arxokuna
<gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> OK. If no other criticism I'll correct it and post it to lojban.org wiki.

Strictly speaking, "ka'e" only says that the bag contains black balls.
It doesn't say whether it also contains white balls or not, although
pragmatically one expects that it will, just as when someone says
"some" one pragmatically expects "but not all" to be true as well.

Similarly "ka'e na" would say that the bag contains white ball, saying
nothing about whether it contains black ones as well.
I believe that here we must postulate the meaning of {ka'e}.
Yes, we don't mean that the must be at least one white ball. We don't know it.
And in this scheme we probably even don't want to determine the number 
of white balls.
However, {bi'ai} and {naka'e} speak about the probability =1 of balls of one color present in the bag.


In order to say that it contains both black and white balls you may
need something like "su'opame'iro mu'ei", "in some but not all
worlds". "May or may not", as opposed to just "may".

I'd put "bi'ai" at the same level as "ka'e",
OK. done. 
it's not really about
materialization. That the ball picked is black is just a consequence
of all of them being black in that bag, so of course the one that
materializes will be as well, but "bi'ai" has nothing to do with the
materialization itself. Similarly it's not all that relevant to "na
ka'e" that the ball picked is white, it's just a consequence of all of
them being white in that bag.
mi tugni 

> Are there still other voices for mu'ei?

"mu'ei" allows a more fine grained description of the contents of the
bags, "so'u mu'ei", "so'o mu'ei", "so'i mu'ei", "so'e mu'ei", "so'a
mu'ei", "du'e mu'ei", "rau mu'ei", "mo'a mu'ei".
.ie 

mu'o mi'e xorxes


The new version of the scheme attached in two formats. Now it includes F-level where {ca'a} is placed.
Is everyone able to open this file?

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