Subject: Re: [lojban] More about quantifiers

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:51:52 -0500

On Monday 11 March 2002 10:43, [email-masked] wrote:
> > .i 1mai ganai roda nebdatka gi da blabi
> > .i 2mai ro nebdatka cu blabi
>
> To be on the safe side, {roda zo'u ganai da nebdatka gi da blabi} (the
> quantifier inside the conditional but with scope over the whole leads
> sometimes to unexpected results). The first is, I think, universally agreed
> to be non-importing. The second is also, according to xorxes, is importing
> according to me (and, I would say, Lojban generally).

Okay, so how do we distinguish "Everything is white if it's a swan" from "If 
everything is a swan, then something is white"?

phma