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Re: OT: verification principle (was Re: [jboske] factivity of nu)



Invent Yourself scripsit:

> You intend to count propositions? Are you sure that they are countable?

Prepositions,  if not ineffable, must be encodable as sentences, and sentences
are countable, if you exclude sentences of infinite length.  In Lojban, the
grammar allows such sentences, but we are not able in general to determine
their truth conditions.

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