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Re: [engelang] Xorban: Properties



On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:08 PM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@hidden.email> wrote:
> From: Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@hidden.email>
>
> Connectives all start with j-, quantifiers are r- and s- and variables
> are all vowels, so I don't see why you say they all look alike.
>
> But they all end with strings of vowels -- and the restrictions which you now propose are not the ones from last week or the week before (nor has the public record kept up).

The language is under development, yes, but I don't think any of those
have changed since the first day. Changes have been mostly on the
marginal stuff.

> But  krici lo du'u  doesn't mean "believe the proposition is true", it means "believes the proposition".

A distinction without a difference. And while I don't give much weight
to the actual wording of official definitions, the one for "krici"
happens to be: "x1 believes [regardless of evidence/proof]
belief/creed x2 (du'u) is true/assumed about subject x3".

co ma'a xrxe