Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: "except the cat"

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 16:05:41 GMT

la pycyn cusku di'e

>Old logician's rule: "All except the cat ..." = "Only the cat not..." =
>"Everything if not ... then is the cat". But usually we want to say (as
>logicians often do not) that the cat does not... as well as that nothing 
>else
>does. So "Everything not ... if and only if is the cat"

Yes, all that is logical, but too cumbersome in many cases.
What I would want is something to tag a sumti as an exception,
I don't want to have to write two logically connected sentences.

co'o mi'e xorxes

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