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Jordan DeLong scripsit:
> I disagree. o-gadri are out, regardless of the membership of lo'i
> stedu be mi, because I am talking about a specific thing.
It's not whether the thing is specific, but whether your reference to it
is specific: that is, whether I need to ask you to be sure what the referent is.
> lei makes
> no sense, because it implies there is more than one, and furthermore
> that collectively it can be (conceptually) infinitely subdivided.
"lei mi stedu" is fine, if a bit Chinese.
> That it uses universal quantification doesn't mean anything. It's
> all behind the scenes. Explicitly saying "ro le" probably *would*
> imply that I had more than one head, but that's not what we are
> talking about.
Only in a Gricean sense.
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