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> Conversely: That the whole pie is such that I don't eat > it all does not mean that there is no fraction that I eat. piro lei cidja naku se citka mi does mean there is no fraction that you eat.
No it doesn't. It says that the whole is such that I don't eat it. It says nothing about other fractions of the whole. You are reading it as "each fraction is such that I don't eat it", but all it says is "the biggest fraction is such that I don't it eat", it does not say anything about smaller fractions.
piro lei cidja na se citka mi allows that you might have eaten a fraction.
Yes, it does. {naku piro} is in fact identical to
{piro naku}, because {piro} is a singular term.
I don't see how any of this helps your default quantifer foobar.
First let us be clear that "the biggest fraction" and
"each fraction" are different things, and that {piro}
means "the biggest fraction" = "the whole" and not
"each fraction". If we don't agree about that, I can't
go on with my explanation.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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