From pycyn@aol.com Thu May 31 18:21:08 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 1 Jun 2001 01:21:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 58936 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2001 01:21:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 1 Jun 2001 01:21:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d04.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.36) by mta1 with SMTP; 1 Jun 2001 01:21:07 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.22.) id r.ce.157ce8e5 (3757) for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 21:21:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 21:21:03 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] Request for grammar clarifications To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_ce.157ce8e5.284847ff_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10519 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_ce.157ce8e5.284847ff_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In a message dated 5/31/2001 1:46:49 PM Central Daylight Time,=20 rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org writes: <> =20 > What's the problem?> >=A0 It's true if {noda du lo pa cevni} is and thus, inter alia, if there i= s=20 some=20 > number of cevni other than pa. > But the book says that sayng 'lo pa cevni' states that there is only one > god in the universe...> Well, "states" is a little strong, since sumti don't state, but it does mak= e=20 its basic sentence false if there is no god or more than one. In those=20 cases, {A du lo pa cevni} is false for every A, thus {no da du lo pa cevni}= =20 is true and so, a fortiori, is {no da poi li'o du lo pa cevni}=20 --part1_ce.157ce8e5.284847ff_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In a message dated 5/31/2001 1:46:49 PM Central Daylight Time,=20
rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org writes:

<> <no da poi na du la .alsax. du lo pa cevni
>=20
> What's the problem?>
>=A0 It's true if {noda du lo pa cevni} is and thus, inter alia, if = there is=20
some=20
> number of cevni other than pa.

But the book says that sa= yng 'lo pa cevni' states that there is only one
god in the universe...>



Well, "states" is a little strong, since sumti don't state, but it does= make=20
its basic sentence false if there is no god or more than one.  In = those=20
cases, {A du lo pa cevni} is false for every A, thus {no da du lo pa ce= vni}=20
is true and so, a fortiori, is {no da poi li'o du lo pa cevni}=20
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