Re: How {lo} works

[Chris Bogart <cbogart@quetzal.com>]

On Thu, 20 Nov 1997 bob@MEGALITH.RATTLESNAKE.COM wrote:
> If you reject this and say, "this cannot be the case", then you are
> forbidding certain procedures associated with {lo}, such as using
> different cats in the second test rather than the same cats.

Check out section 7 of chapter 6 for a good discussion of this.  {mi nelci
lo mlatu} is the same as {mi nelci su'o lo ro mlatu}, where {su'o} means
one or more, and {ro} means all.  That {ro} rules out your idea of having
the listener round up a bunch of cats at random to present -- you're very
specifically required to round up *all* the cats in the universe.  "All"
is convenient because it means the set doesn't change every time.

Chris