Re: category errors in sumti

[And Rosta <a.rosta@UCLAN.AC.UK>]

> >Easy. I could easily create a lujvo or fu`ivla to do the job,
> >but I don't need to: {nanmu} and {ninmu} immediately spring
> >to mind. x1 of nanmu must be male.
>
> In order to be TRUE, yes.  In order to make sense, not necessarily.
> The question was whether it was possible for a selbri to have such a
> restricted category of sumti. It is possible to do so, but not all
 propositions
> are true.

The question was whether it is possible in Lojban to distinguish
between male and female, and to distinguish between concrete and
abstract. It is possible to have a selbri whose sumti must be female
if the bridi is true. And likewise it is possible to have a selbri
whose sumti must be concrete, if the bridi is true.

If there were such a selbri making the concrete/abstract distinction,
then whether a nu abstraction could be sumti of such a selbri
would depend on whether a nu is concrete or abstract. This was
my original point, in response to John's suggestion that - in
effect - nu are abstract.

--And