Re: [lojban] Quantifier exactness

[Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipeg.assis@gmail.com>]

On 7 January 2013 12:01, .arpis. <rpglover64+jbobau@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Felipe Gonçalves Assis
> <felipeg.assis@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What is lacking here is the argument /for/ quantifier inexactness,
>> which goes against CLL.
>
>
> Much as I like quantifier exactness as a useful idiosyncrasy in lojban (and
> view adhering to the CLL) as a good default, I find the example given as an
> argument /against/ quantifier exactness (though not an entirely convincing
> one by itself), at least if I take latros's analysis at face value.
>

I don't see how the example is an argument. It is just that, an example.

> The sentence says to me "I, more than you, like one of the two people."
> Unless you can give me an intuition for a translation that preserves exact
> quantifier semantics (and just adding "exactly" to the previous statement
> doesn't do it), I'm going to be uneasy about them.
>

"I, more than you, like one of the two people."
{da poi me lo re prenu zo'u mi zmadu do lo ni ce'u nelci da} or
{mi zmadu do lo ni ce'u nelci lo [su'o/pa] me lo re prenu}

The odd thing with the original example is the quantification within
the ni-clause.

mu'o
mi'e .asiz.

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