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At 11:23 AM 1/11/03 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> But we don't want to have to write that. I want to be able to say things > like > ro pavyseljirna cu blabi > and have it be exactly the same as > ro da zo'u ga da na pavyseljina gi da blabi > and > ro da poi pavyseljirna zo'u da blabi And so? You do, but I do not. I want "ro pavyseljirna cu blabi" to count as false, not true, and ditto with "ro pavyseljirna cu zirpu". At the common-sense level, there *aren't* any unicorns, white, purple or otherwise. (I am not here talking about possible or fictional worlds in which there are unicorns -- substitute "even primes > 2" if you like.)
Can we solve the fictional worlds problem by allowing (mi'u da poi munje) or something of that sort in a prenex?
I still think we can allow both your version and Jordan's version to hold using metalinguistic statements to indicate which philosophy is determining our truths.
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