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Mike S., On 01/10/2012 18:19:
Binding a variable to nothing, particularly when the restriction says nothing as in "sa bbbe ...", is unsettling, though "sa bbba ccce" is probably not so terrible as to be worth the trouble of fixing.
It's as easy to prohibit it as to allow it.
If people want to say nonsense or be uncooperative, they will.
What matters is not what people utter but what, if anything, the rules of the language state that their utterance means.
Xorban allows one to say "All dogs are such that I see you, and some cat is such that John believes there are unicorns."
I don't think it does. --And.