Subject: Re: [lojban] The new approach to attitudinals

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 07:06:26 -0400 (EDT)

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 [email-masked]
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
--Douglas Hofstadter