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xorxes: > la and cusku di'e > > > The individual/substance distinction, on the other hand, seems to > > > be used to describe different objects, so it is a distinction to > > > be made by using different selbri. There is no "apple stuff" that > > > corresponds directly to the set of seven apples, so if we were > > > to have a substance gadri it would not be related to the set in > > > the way other gadri work > > > >What you say here is reasonable. But the individual/substance > >distinction applies to every predicate, in the sense that every > >predicate can have an individuals-version and a substance- > >version. Or rather, every *sumti place* with have two versions > >So if every sumti place has two versions, it is impractical > >to insist of as solution as ad hoc as lujvo creation. So if > >we were to reject making the distinction in gadri, we would > >need a way of doing it other than using lujvo > > Ok. But it should be a gadri that does not take inner > quantifiers We agree. Is there any way to *prevent* a gadri from taking an inner quantifier? Or do we just have to say that any inner quantifier is meaningless? --And.