Re: Some thoughts on Lojban gadri

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la xorxes. cusku di'e

> la djan cusku di'e
> 
> > The fact that "lei" is +specific doesn't affect what its outside quantifier
> > is, since (as I said before), the outside quantifiers of masses aren't
> > true logical quantifiers: the true quantifier in the sense of predicate
> > logic is always "pa".  The apparent quantifier is really a fractionator:
> > we massify some number of components, determined by the inside quantifier
> > (really a set cardinal, as pc says), get some fraction of it, specific or
> > non-specific as the gadri tells us, and then use that as a singular term.
> 
> I think the fractionator is nonspecific unless it is piro. If you are
> referring to a specific fraction, then {le pisu'o} will do the job.
> Otherwise, how do you refer to a nonspecific fraction of an in-mind
> specific mass?

You are right and I was wrong.  "lei" is -specific, unless an explicit
"piro" appears.  However, the stuff inside the "lei" is +implicitly_restricted.

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