[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: quantifiers
la pycyn. cusku di'e
> The argument goes that we have somehow gotten to the point where _ro da
> poi broda_ = _ro lo broda_ = _ro broda_ and, since the first of these is
> given as having existential import, all the rest do too.
And I, on the other hand, believe that the three expressions are
equivalent and NONE of them has existential import; that nothing quantified
with "ro" (or "no", which is its dual) has existential import.
(I believe that jimcs also believes this.)
What are the arguments against this viewpoint?
--
John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
e'osai ko sarji la lojban.