addendum Re: TECH: word "only"

[Mr Andrew Rosta <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>]

I said:
> jimc:
> > I very much agree.  The word "only" was one of the first that I broke my
> > teeth on.  Here is a short list of meanings, supplementing what Colin
> > wrote:
> >
> > (1)     The only way is love            There is exactly one X which is
> >                                         a tadji (way), AND X is love
> > (2)     I ate only two cookies          I ate two cookies, AND two is less
> >                                         than the expected number for this
> >                                         situation
> > (3)     I only ate two cookies          I ate two cookies, AND that event
> >                                         is less than what would normally
> >                                         justify the criticism or punishment
> >                                         that you are putting me through
>
> I reckon 1, 2 & 3 (on one reading of 3) are the same. 2 is: there are
> exactly two cookies eaten by me (in this particular event of eating).
> 3 is: there is exactly one eating (at this particular implicit time)
> such that the eater is me and the eatee is two cookies.

I am wrong about 3. Rather, it is: there is some event whose x1 is
me and whose x2 is two cookies and all such events are eatings.

[Or maybe not.]

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