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RE: [jboske] The ugly head of ni



pc:
> a.rosta@hidden.email writes:
> <<
> 
> Well I have {ni ko'a} under control -- I think we all do, even if
> xod thinks that jei can do ni's job. But I don't know what ni+ce'u
> means. I invite people to tell me
> 
> >>
> I just did: it is the lambdaization of {ni ko'a...}, that is, a 
> property of ordered pairs <sumti, quantity> such that quantity is ni 
> [sumti] ... and each sumti occurs in only one op.

I don't understand either the formal definition or what it would
be used for in practise.

If ni + ce'uless bridi is a function from the bridi to the amount
that the world would have to change in order for the bridi to
become false (if it is true) or true (if it is false), then 
ni + ce'uful bridi would presumably be some kind of function 
from relations to some sort of amount. But I can make no sense
of that. What sort of amount would it be?

--And.