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At 02:08 PM 1/10/03 +0000, And Rosta wrote:
John: > Nick the Weasel asserts that while du'u is not factive ("it [must] have a > predicate and arguments, [no more]"), nu is factive ("what it describes > truly happens in the world") > > I have (consistently, I think) asserted both within and outwith CLL that > the latter is untrue. The event of Nixon being elected President in '68> is no more and no less an event than the event of McGovern being elected etc.,> even though the former cu fasnu and the latter, on the contrary, na fasnu Is the detective Sherlock Holmes less of a detective than the detective Alan Pinkerton [or some other RL detective]?
I believe that Lojban should not have embedded in its design either a yes or a no answer to that question. The answer to that question is a hopefully unnecessary metaphysical assumption.
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