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Re: generalization and another try...
- To: lojban-list
- Subject: Re: generalization and another try...
- From: cowan (John Cowan)
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 10:52:27 EDT
- In-Reply-To: <9106191600.AA12825@dino>; from "Coranth" at Jun 19, 91 12:00 pm
la korant. cusku di'e:
> There is in formal logic the declarator "for all X ...", this appears to me
> to be what is being described with "lei" and "loi". It makes explicit what
> is trying to be done wioth formal reasoning, whereas the removal of group
> terms leaves us with ONLY implicit grouping, which is much more 'bogus'
> in terms of unpredictability and muddied thought processes.
"For all X such that..." is "ro da poi ..." or "ro lo ..." or just "ro ..."
This is not the same as a mass term. What is true of any part of a mass
is true of the mass: Mr. Rabbit is white (and brown, and gray).
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