* Wednesday, 2014-11-12 at 18:09 -0300 - Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:38 AM, Martin Bays <mbays@sdf.org> wrote:
> > * Tuesday, 2014-11-11 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
> > > On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Martin Bays <mbays@sdf.org> wrote:
> > > > > > ca ro nu mi xagji kei mi klama lo zarci .e ba bo lo zdani
> > > > > > -> ca ro nu mi xagji kei ko'a fasnu .i ko'a nu ge ko'e fasnu
> > > > > > gi ko'i fasnu
> > > > > > .i ko'i nu ko'o balvi ko'e .i ko'e nu mi klama lo zarci
> > > > > > .i ko'o nu mi klama lo zdani
> > > If you read the original sentence as allowing for the possibility
> > > that when I'm hungry I may go many times to the market, but at
> > > least one of those times has to be followed by a time of me going
> > > home, then I see your point, but the way I read it there's just
> > > one relevant instance of going to the market and then going home
> > > for each time I'm hungry.
> >
> > I read the original sentence that way too. But I don't see how to read
> > your kind-based translation that way. It claims both {ko'e fasnu} and
> > {ko'o balvi ko'e}, wrapped inside a single event-kind. How does that
> > force the going to the market (i.e. instance of ko'e) in the former to
> > be same as the going to the market in the latter?
>
> Only in so far as it's the only relevant instance of my-going-to-the-market
> around at that time. But I don't think that's actually part of the claim,
> which doesn't involve instances.
Yes. So the kind-based translation falls, incorrectly, on the first side
of the dividing line you drew above - it allows for, and appears to
involve, two goings shopping for each hungering (ignoring that
pragmatics might, in this particular case, lead us to assume that
they're equal).
I don't see how to fix this, if the {je} approach doesn't work.
> Just as a claim in which "mi" appears twice doesn't involve time
> slices, even though it will be only a time slice that makes the claim
> true, if you start analyzing it that way.
And just as the time-slices (i.e. times) involved might be different,
yes.
Martin
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