Re: TECH: RE: do djica loi ckafi je'i tcati

[Randall Holmes <holmes@DIAMOND.IDBSU.EDU>]

This seems only to go to you via my reply function, and I don't know
how to e-mail the whole list; I'll try to do this in the cc: line at
the end of this message.

The same problem arises in TLI Loglan; the paradigmatic example which
caused a lot of discussion was "I am waiting for a taxi".  The
difficulty seems to be that the logical form of the sentence is an
illusion; there is no box referred to in "I need a box", and there is
no taxi referred to in "I am waiting for a taxi" (there need not even
exist any boxes or taxis meeting your requirements for the statement
to be true).  The context is "referentially opaque", in Quine's
terminology, and the object of the sentence, if it has one, is some
kind of "intensional" object (something on the order of a concept of a
box or taxi).

                                        --Randall Holmes
                                        ("logician in residence", TLI)