From pycyn@aol.com Thu Aug 16 09:43:31 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 16 Aug 2001 16:43:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 58060 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2001 16:43:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 16 Aug 2001 16:43:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-m07.mx.aol.com) (64.12.136.162) by mta1 with SMTP; 16 Aug 2001 16:43:26 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-m07.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.3.) id r.3d.1015fed3 (3990) for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:43:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3d.1015fed3.28ad522d@aol.com> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:43:25 EDT Subject: On dropping {du'u} or {ka} To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_3d.1015fed3.28ad522d_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10531 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_3d.1015fed3.28ad522d_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The logical thing to do is drop {du'u} if one is to go. {ka} is the general case, n-adic relations, while {du'u} is the special medadic case. Of course, that requires all {ce'u} to be in place. And all the places of proposition to be filled. Logic regularly keeps both to allow conventions to deal with frequent cases at considerable savings in space and time. --part1_3d.1015fed3.28ad522d_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The logical thing to do is drop {du'u} if one is to go.  {ka} is the general
case, n-adic relations, while {du'u} is the special medadic case.  Of course,
that requires all {ce'u} to be in place.  And all the places of  proposition
to be filled.  Logic regularly keeps both to allow conventions to deal with
frequent cases at considerable savings in space and time. --part1_3d.1015fed3.28ad522d_boundary--