Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: [jboske] RE: Anything but tautologies

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:55:43 -0500 (EST)

[email-masked] scripsit:

> Literally? That is, {lu ...... li'u}? 

That works for me, although the phrase "expression/rule" indicates that
greater flexibility is probably OK as well.

> Or {le du'u makau .... ce'u}? For 
> the latter is a function, that is, the name of a function so representing a 
> function in the text, and so not an expression.

I need a particular example here to understand. There are certainly
sumti of this form that don't refer to functions: "what John is looking
at" is a screen, not a function.

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