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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Jorge Llambias wrote:
>
> la adam cusku di'e
>
> >On the other hand, as I understand it, while 'broda lo'e brode' doesn't
> >imply that 'broda lo brode', 'broda lo brode' does imply that 'broda
> >lo'e brode'.
>
> I think there is no _logical_ implication, but I agree there
> is often some kind of implication. In other words, {su'o da
> zo'u broda tu'o du'u da brode} does not logically entail
> {broda tu'o du'u su'o da zo'u da brode}.
>
> >So, once again with chocolate, if one ordinarily dislikes
> >almost every piece of chocolate, but that last piece just hit the spot,
> >then 'nelci lo cakla' and thus 'nelci lo'e cakla' is true, though 'likes
> >chocolate' certainly isn't.
>
> I would describe that situation as:
>
> mi ta'e naku nelci lo'e cakla i ku'i mi nelci le vi cakla
> Typically it is not the case that I like chocolate, but
> I do like this chocolate.
Thank you. And any statement similar to the English "I like
generic/average/etc chocolate" that's based on a single piece, by someone
who ordinarily dislikes it, seems like the sort of rhetoric which should
be, and until now has been, banned in Lojban by its irrationality.
Furthermore, such a use makes of complete mockery of the keyword
"typically" which I daily must remind the readers is bound to "lo'e".
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