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Lojbab: > At 01:29 PM 1/4/03 +0000, you wrote: > >la lojbab cusku di'e > >I think your proposal about le/lo goes in the right direction, > >though you still talk of default quantifiers while the best > >assignment is that they should have no quantifier: they should > >be singular terms > > That would reintroduce the concept of number, which Loglan/Lojban attempted > to remove When there can noncontingently be only one of something, it is foolish to have to treat it as if there could be more than one of it. The Loglan attempt to make it impossible to treat inherent singulars as such was, IMO, based on a lack of logical awareness coupled with an excess of anti-SAE zeal. The two steps necessary to rectify this are to scrap default quantifiers where they are not necessary and to introduce a gadrioid for Unique (or 'kind', a suggestion of Nick's which when I have the time I will write a message endorsing). --And.