From cowan@ccil.org Sun Oct 14 19:16:34 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 15 Oct 2001 02:16:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 12876 invoked from network); 15 Oct 2001 02:16:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 15 Oct 2001 02:16:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta3 with SMTP; 15 Oct 2001 02:16:33 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15sxJ6-0007cU-00 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 22:16:44 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] da ce de ce di In-Reply-To: <01101420512601.05275@neofelis> from "cmeclax po'u le cmevi'u ke'umri" at "Oct 14, 2001 08:51:26 pm" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 22:16:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan cmeclax po'u le cmevi'u ke'umri scripsit: > jbofi'e interprets "da ce de ce di" as {{da, de}, di}, which seems to me to > leave no way to say {da, de, di}. The *parse* of da ce de ce di is (da ce de) ce di, but that is not the set-theoretic interpretation, which is {da, de, di}. To say anything else, you have to use explicit set-forming selbri. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Please leave your values | Check your assumptions. In fact, at the front desk. | check your assumptions at the door. --sign in Paris hotel | --Miles Vorkosigan