From jjllambias@hotmail.com Fri Mar 01 17:35:08 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jjllambias@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 2 Mar 2002 01:35:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 64652 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2002 01:35:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m10.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 2 Mar 2002 01:35:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.241.188) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Mar 2002 01:35:08 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:35:07 -0800 Received: from 200.69.6.17 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 02 Mar 2002 01:35:07 GMT To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Bcc: Subject: Re: [lojban] go'i: repeated referents or just sumti? Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 01:35:07 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Mar 2002 01:35:07.0979 (UTC) FILETIME=[7C65F9B0:01C1C18A] From: "Jorge Llambias" X-Originating-IP: [200.69.6.17] X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=6071566 X-Yahoo-Profile: jjllambias2000 la tanatos cusku di'e >Actually, the cardinality is part of the description. Last paragraph of >page 131: > > Note that the inner quantifier of "le", even when exact, need not be > truthful: "le ci nanmu" means "what I describe as three men", not > "three of what I describe as men". I certainly agree that it is not "three of what I describe as men", that's "ci le nanmu", but "what I describe as three men" is too vague. It really means "each of those I describe as three men". >Of course I may be misreading that. {ro le ci nanmu} may be more >accurately translated as, "each of a group of individuals, each of which >I describe as a man, and in number what I describe as at least one,...". That's fine by me, it doesn't really matter that much whether the inner quantifier is veridical or not as it is incidental information. >It's a problem that too many of the examples >of pro-sumti in The Book always assume single referent, which makes it >harder to see what the pro-sumti mean as bound variables. Indeed. Lots of scope and quantification issues are just not present with single referents. >Is {mi prami >mi} "each of us loves himself", or "each of us loves each of us"? In my view, it is "we (as a whole) love ourselves (as a whole)". I take {mi}, {do}, etc. to be masses, so they have a single referent and no complications. The Book says they can be taken both ways, sometimes as a mass, sometimes as individuals, depending on context. >That may have been why I wanted to use ko'a as referring to the group in >mind the same way mi refers to the group of speaker(s). There is >precedent for pro-sumti referring to groups of individuals. Yes, that's possible, but {lei mlatu goi ko'a} does just that. >I think I'd like {re le mlatu goi ko'a} to not quantify or bind ko'a, >leaving that until the first appearance of ko'a as a sumti, as if were a >separate variable from the unnamed one being quantified by re, but being >restricted to the same group of individuals; and for {re le mlatu ku goi >ko'a} to have ko'a be the same as the unnamed variable quantified by re. I think that's more complicated than it need be. You can always force the first case by using an explicit quantifier on ko'a, so it's not much of a gain to have both possibilities from the goi, and it is a loss because you are forced to use a lot of ku's. >Ah, I don't think I've ever run across requantification before I >starting learning Lojban, so all I have are natural language >assumptions. Requantification is a Lojban aberration. I wouldn't think you'd run across it anywhere else. But in ordinary language we do very similar things. When we say "some people do this, some do that, and others do so and so", "some" and "others" mean "some people" and "other people", so we are in a sense requantifying from the same set ("people"), but obviously not just from the first "some people". >I mean for {my} to be a separate variable that is restricted to the same >group of individuals in mind as {re le mlatu}. So that {re le mlatu cu >catlu my} would mean "two cats in mind look at each cat in mind". But that's easy to say explicitly: {re le mlatu cu catlu ro my}. It is much more convenient to have {re le mlatu cu catlu my} to mean "two of the cats look at themselves". In this case you could also use {vo'a} for that, but in other cases it can be more difficult. >Since >we have a particular group in mind it seems useful to be able to >introduce new variables restricted to that group, without aliasing them >to other variables. I agree, and that's exactly what happens when you introduce a new quantifier. But in the absence of a new quantifier, the best choice is to keep the original binding. mu'o mi'e xorxes _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com