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Re: [lojban] Individuals and xorlo
la .pycyn. cu cusku di'e
It seems that the constantly evolving xorlo (now moving far from 'lo' --
and probably from xorxes as well)
I don't think so. It's just that some questions that often get asked
about xorlo are actually more general than xorlo. Nothing is changing
about xorlo either, it's just that when new people come around, they
find a mess of underdocumented and scattered definitions and need to ask
the same (or similar) questions each time again. This will only stop
once there is a more complete specification that one can point someone
to instead of having to re-open a discussion about xorlo.
So, the basic 'lo broda' is "the salient node of
the upward semilattice of jest on the set assigned to 'broda'" (some set
of brodas and broda parts -- whatever that may mean for a particular
kind of thing as broda). 'lo', unlike 'loi' says nothing about how the
set involved is connected to the predicates involved (collective or
distributive).
All that is well-known, although we tend to use different terminology.
Variables range over L-sets or are plural, depending on
your mathematical theology. Etc. do we need to fill in all the details
and, if not, which ones?
We need to know if variables are plural or singular, that's all.
Currently, they are "defined" as singular, for some value of "defined"
that makes sense when there is no official body to define it.
The rules are simple enough, they just aren't layed out properly. (If
they were, we wouldn't be having this discussion.)
mi'e la selpa'i mu'o
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