Re: replies re. ka & mamta be ma

[jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU]

I forgot this one:

And:
> Can we say {lo ka keha mamta keha} to mean "the mother relation",
> "the function from mothers to offspring"? If we can, I start to
> see a strong case for it.

I guess you can, but where would you use it? (And why would it be
the function from mothers to offpring and not from offspring to
mothers?)

The lambda variable is at its most useful in predicates where one
sumti (say sumti3) is a function and the claim is about some comparison
of the function eveluated at sumti1 and at sumti2. (I'm thinking
of frica, zmadu, mleca, simsa, dunli.)

I can't think of any predicate that requires a two-argument function
as one of its arguments.

Jorge