From pycyn@aol.com Fri Sep 07 01:32:56 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_1); 7 Sep 2001 08:32:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 19899 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2001 08:32:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 7 Sep 2001 08:32:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r08.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.104) by mta3 with SMTP; 7 Sep 2001 08:32:55 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.4.) id r.165.77eea7 (4012) for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 04:32:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <165.77eea7.28c9e032@aol.com> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 04:32:50 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] the set of answers To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_165.77eea7.28c9e032_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10535 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_165.77eea7.28c9e032_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/6/2001 7:58:19 PM Central Daylight Time, a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com writes: > In which case the makau locution is rather unsatisfactory, since it > will invariably be making a weaker claim than is usually desired. > {makau} sets, like {ma} sets are sets of answers: generally "Somebody" and "The store goer" and "Nobody" (except in presupposition disputes) are not answers and so have no place in the set. --part1_165.77eea7.28c9e032_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/6/2001 7:58:19 PM Central Daylight Time,
a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com writes:


In which case the makau locution is rather unsatisfactory, since it
will invariably be making a weaker claim than is usually desired.


{makau} sets, like {ma} sets are sets of answers: generally "Somebody" and
"The store goer" and "Nobody" (except in presupposition disputes) are not
answers and so have no place in the set.   --part1_165.77eea7.28c9e032_boundary--