Subject: Re: [lojban] Usage of logical connectives?

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 00:50:43

la robyspir cusku di'e

>Since the truth value of a command is whether that command is carried out, 
>what
>would be wrong with:
>
>ko nicygau ledo kumfa .ijo do kakne lenu klama le panka

Probably {mi curmi le nu do klama le panka} is better than {kakne}.

It's not that the sentence is wrong, it is just that it doesn't
really have the intended meaning. It says that the two events
are true together or false together, it does not say that the
permission to go to the park is a consequence of the child
cleaning up the room, nor that the parent wants the child
to clean up the room. It doesn't say "I want you to clean up
your room, and your recompense for doing it will be my permission
to go to the park". Maybe the English doesn't really say all that
either, maybe it only implicates it, and we can do the same
in Lojban, but then our children won't learn to think
logically... :)

co'o mi'e xorxes

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