Subject: Re: [lojban] Knowledge (was: Random lojban questions/annoyances.)

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:24:27

la xod cusku di'e

> > > > > .i ro selkrici cu jitfa no da
> > >
> > Actually, as written it says: For every belief x, there is no standard
> > by which x is false.
> >
> > What you meant (I presume) is:
> >
> > i no da cu se jitfa ro selkrici
> >
> > There is no standard such that every belief is false by it.
>
>How is it that you perform only a SE conversion but get such a different
>meaning?

Because the order of the quantifiers is reversed.
"For every x there is no y such that..." is not the same
as "There is no y such that for every x...". Logic 101 :)

co'o mi'e xorxes

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