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Re: [lojban] Balningau: The Great Update
la .pycyn. cu cusku di'e
But at least the last of these may
include in the referent of 'lo broda' things which are not broda in any
sense, but rather, for example, broda bits. (There was broda all over my
bumper after I plowed into a herd of brodas.)
Whether or not those things are considered things that {broda} depends
on the universe of discourse. There is no pre-defined set of things
which can and can't satisfy {broda} in all contexts.
Of course, this possibility does also rely on there not being
any absolute individuals, since me here extends below things which are
brodas (individual brodas still have members, they just aren't brodas).
If the universe of discourse in question makes no distinction between an
alive broda and one that got squashed, then they both {broda} equally.
In another context, they may be considered distinct and then only one of
them will {broda}, and the other is something else.
None of this is strictly tied to {lo} or xorlo, but to the semantics of
universes of discourse.
mi'e la selpa'i mu'o
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