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la nitcion cusku di'e
>OK, tell me where the following fails:
>
>mi djuno ro lo du'u makau catra la lauras.
>
>= ro da
> ro de poi de du'u da catra la lauras.
> zi'epoi de jetnu
> zo'u:
> mi djuno de
These expansions usually fail with negative answers. If we
accept that "I know who killed Laura" must include the case
that when noone killed Laura, I know that noone killed Laura,
then the expansion fails. There is no true {de} such that
{de du'u da catra la lauras}, therefore your expansion
is vacuously true but makes no claim of knowledge. It would
be true even if I don't know that nobody killed Laura.
Jorge, I hate you with the passion of a million red hot suns.
ro da
ro de poi klesi lu'i ro da
ro di poi di du'u lu'o de catra la lauras.
zi'epoi di jetnu
zo'u:
mi djuno de
Where I understand klesi to mean subset, and de to include the empty
set.
And yes, I got the quantifiers wrong. What I want to know is, is this the kind of thing the answer is.
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