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Re: expansion to sentences
- To: lojban-list
- Subject: Re: expansion to sentences
- From: cowan (John Cowan)
- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 91 9:54:34 EDT
- In-Reply-To: <9106131652.AA03375@euphemia.math.ucla.edu>; from "math.ucla.edu!jimc" at Jun 13, 91 9:52 am
la djim. kartr. cusku di'e:
> I find it convenient to stick with the
> Old Loglan view (per JCB, undoubtedly derived from some classical
> philosopher) that a brivla is a relation between not only the occupants
> of its numbered places but zillions of other possible modal places.
This is also the Lojban view. Oddly, I had thought that jimc had rejected
it, based on the -gua!spi report, which speaks of predicates "express[ing]
a relation between the occupants of its cases", with no mention (at that
point) of the modal cases.
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