Re: [lojban] Time-(non)local sumti (was: Mixing tenses, on the beginners list)

[Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:32 AM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com> wrote:

Think of 'mi' as in the same class as 'lo' phrases, "the salient ...".  Otherwise you will  get into all manner of paradoxes (as old as philosophy, for the most part) of no practical value. 

Even claiming that doing so makes sense is a rather fundamental philosophical claim, namely that things like people can even be understood as being time-local in the first place. Still, this begs the question of what it means to be, say, {lo ca me mi ku}. If {mi} can be time-nonlocal in some contexts and time-local in others, then is {lo ca me mi ku} local or nonlocal? If this depends on context, how does one indicate that it is one or the other?

mi'e la latro'a mu'o

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