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From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>

"James F. Carter" wrote:

> In Lojban, how do you tag a bridi to indicate that it's performative?

There's an evidential for "true by definition", which when attached to
non-definitions makes them performatives, i.e. true because I say so.

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