From cowan@ccil.org Mon Jun 11 04:06:14 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 11 Jun 2001 11:06:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 50562 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2001 11:06:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 11 Jun 2001 11:06:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2 with SMTP; 11 Jun 2001 11:06:14 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 159PWc-0001tS-00; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 07:06:26 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] The new approach to attitudinals In-Reply-To: from Invent Yourself at "Jun 10, 2001 03:54:43 pm" To: Invent Yourself Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 07:06:26 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan Invent Yourself scripsit: > >.i a'o .i le merja'a cu stace > > I have hope. The US President is honest. > > The problem with this is, does this floating .i .a'o refer to the sentence > before it, or ahead of it? It refers to the speaker's state of mind at the time it's uttered. That said, this usage is specifically mentioned in the Book as one way to cut off the aV and eV series from the propositional-attitude interpretation. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter