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Re: Lojban duplications

To: John Cowan <cowan@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Raymond <eric@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Tiedemann <est@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>
Subject: Re: Lojban duplications
From: John Cowan <cbmvax!UUNET.UU.NET!snark.thyrsus.com!cowan>
In-Reply-To: <9110102236.AA24412@relay1.UU.NET>; from "pucc.princeton.edu!jimc" at Oct 10, 91 3:32 pm
Reply-To: John Cowan <cbmvax!UUNET.UU.NET!snark.thyrsus.com!cowan>
Sender: Lojban list <cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!pucc.PRINCETON.EDU!LOJBAN>

> Is it our current doctrine that, for each predicate, besides the
> numbered places, the predicate relation includes every <BAI> case
> whether or not specified by words?  In other words, every bridi
> includes a (often unspecified, likely useless in practice, but
> doctrinally important) tense, speaker, listener, language of
> expression, cause (4 kinds), consequence (4 kinds), exemplar, etc. etc.
> ad infinitum?  Note that fi'o <bridi> can make a <BAI> case out
> of every selbri in the language, so "ad infinitum" is to be taken
> literally.

It is Even So, ya sidi.

--
cowan@snark.thyrsus.com         ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan
                e'osai ko sarji la lojban

References:
- Re: Lojban duplications
  - From: cbmvax!uunet!pucc.princeton.edu!jimc

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