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Re: [jboske] {ka'e nu} versus {du'u}



And Rosta scripsit:

> In this case, one of A-B should obtain. Which of the two is 
> the better?

I reject both of them, not too surprisingly.  I can't see identifying
nu-objects (events) with du'u/ka objects (propositions/properties/relations).
Events are thick, with lots of reasonable predicates applying to them,
most centrally "occurs".  Props are thin, with very few predicates,
the most important with is "true (of)".

Either events or props can reflect real-world/true or unreal/false
situations.  Metalinguistically you can say which is which with je'u/
je'unai decorations.

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other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague."  --Edsger Dijkstra