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pc:
> I would take it that xorxes' {ja'acai} etc. are of the class of
> comments, with "barely". I am less sure where to put {ja'axipiPA}.
> They look like more precise comments, but are translated as
> functions, like "very." Since I think that functions should be
> represented in the selbri, not off to the side, I will take them too
> as comments, though a good translation is not always obvious.
The distinction you draw is a valid one that I hadn't thought of
before. I'd say that the 'comment' construal of JAhA+CAI better
approximates what I had in mind when I proposed it, though the
simple notion of there being degrees of truth (analogous to the
speed of something that is moving: fast:moving :: very:true) is
not incompatible with functionhood.
As for JAhA+XI, that was developed (by Official Persons) as a way to
do fuzzy logic, so the intention of that is that it be function
not comment.
--And.