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On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:26:40PM +1100, Nick Nicholas wrote:
> You guys really did prematurely declare victory.
[...]
> But this is not lo'e. lo'e does make extra predications of its
> referent, based on representativeness. If you're trying to shoehorn
> the intensional generic into it, kindly don't. It is something else.
.iesai
[...]
> To bring this back to the planet Earth, btw, the intensional "a
> doctor" means "any doctor".That's what I'll have to base any
> paedagogy around.
[...]
Hrm. Perhaps it *really* is a universal quantifier (but nonimporting,
because there may not be such a doctor, or whatever)? You want/need/etc
*all* boxes/doctors. As soon as you have one, though, your desire for
the others will cease. So,
I need a/any doctor
mi nitcu rono mikce
I need a unicorn
mi nitcu rono paxyseljirna
"ro" would be used instead of "rono" if you want to claim that such
things do in fact exist.
I'm not fully convinced of the above, so please tell me why it
doesn't work, if it doesn't work.
--
Jordan DeLong - fracture@hidden.email
lu zo'o loi censa bakni cu terzba le zaltapla poi xagrai li'u
sei la mark. tuen. cusku
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