[lojban] Re: Quantifier exactness

[la gleki <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, January 6, 2013 10:59:58 PM UTC+4, Latro wrote:
> The issue of quantifier exactness has come up a few times already. The most recent example was "context and precision" which was forked by aionys from another thread. You can look at that thread On IRC today,

if there is something important in those logs could you please copy them here? not everyone has access to full logs including english messages.

 

>  playing around with functions we stumbled upon a combination of a sentence and situation such that one stance on quantifier exactness makes the sentence false while the other makes it true. Here's the setup:
>
> There are 4 people, mi, do, la alis, la bab; the latter two are grouped under {lo re prenu}.
> I like la alis a little bit, but hate la bab.
> You like la alis and la bab a lot.
> Now consider
> {mi zmadu do lo ni ce'u nelci pa lo re prenu}
> (If the ni confuses you, pretend it's ka, as that part's not important here. We can talk about ka-ni elsewhere.)
>
> If quantifiers are exact, this is true. {do nelci pa lo re prenu} is completely false (you like two of them, not one), while {mi nelci pa lo re prenu} is true, if only a little bit, so I do exceed you in that aspect. Note that the CLL says this is how the language works, but if you look at the previous discussions you'll find that this is clumsy fairly frequently.
> If quantifiers are not exact, this is false or at least false-ish, since {ro da poi me lo re prenu zo'u do zmadu mi lo ni ce'u nelci da}.
>
> I thought this example warranted discussion primarily because it does not arise because of annoying, semi-ontological issues related to the universe of discourse. Instead there's only two people being quantified over, but the two interpretations still differ with respect to this (relatively simple) sentence.
>
> .i do ma jinvi
>
> .i mi'e la latro'a mu'o

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