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Wallops #8
- To: John Cowan <cowan@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Subject: Wallops #8
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <cbmvax!uunet!ctr.columbia.edu!shoulson>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1992 09:25:22 -0400
- In-Reply-To: Ivan A Derzhanski's message of Tue, 7 Jul 1992 20:56:29 BST
- Reply-To: "Mark E. Shoulson" <cbmvax!uunet!ctr.columbia.edu!shoulson>
- Sender: Lojban list <cbmvax!uunet!pucc.princeton.edu!LOJBAN>
>Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1992 20:56:29 BST
>From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad%COGSCI.ED.AC.UK@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
>> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1992 14:14:36 -0400
>> From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <shoulson@EDU.COLUMBIA.CTR>
>> >From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad%COGSCI.ED.AC.UK@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
>>
>> >Does {da} here work for `him'?
>>
>> I think it does. Sort of "There's someone neither Christ nor the Devil
>> wants".
>I was afraid whether the scoping didn't work the opposite way (to the
>effect of `Christ and the Devil want no one').
Remember the default quantifier on {da}: {su'opada zo'u}. Unless otherwise
specified, variables are presumed to be existentially quantified. So it
works.
~mark