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On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:31 PM, And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote: > > Some preliminary not-deeply-thought-out suggestions: > > 1. Let s- & r- be extensional, in the sense that in s/ra Ra Pa, Ra and Pa > are in the same world. > 2. I can't make up my mind about l-; I've been vacillating back and forth > between having it be like s- and r- and having it unspecified for > extensionality. Again, in the sense that la Ra Pa, Ra and Pa are in the same > world. I think I'm inclining towards the unspecified option. > 3. Split f- into intensional (world-shifting) and nonintensional versions, > say f- and h-. It can be a bit verbose, tho: "la fa la sma pvjrna > pxro'ekaka'a" as opposed to the ambiguous (or extensional) "la pvjrna > pxro'ekaka'a". Why do we want this special treatment for f-predicates and not for every predicate? Wouldn't it be better to have an n- that fixes a predicate to this world? Perhaps "na'a", corresponding to Lojban's "ca'a". ma'a xrxe