Re: xor questions

["Jorge J. Llambías" <jorge@INTERMEDIA.COM.AR>]

la djan cusku di'e
>The only way to avoid this problem is to move to a meta-level, asking
>about words rather then objects.  In that case, the question becomes
>"What word from the set {"Cicero", "Caesar"} correctly names the author
>of the First Oration etc."

If you ask that with {ma} then "a word that begins with a 'C'" is a valid
true answer. I think that {ma} cannot really be used to get a strict
logical equivalent of  "which"-questions. Pragmatically your interlocutor
will very likely understand what you want to know, but that's not
what we're discussing here.

>  Note that the members of the set here are
>words, not objects: it would not be correct to assert that "a Roman"
>was a member of the set {"Cicero", "Caesar"}.

True, but  "A Roman's name" will do.

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