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Re: Dr. Rosta's comments on my gadri whitepaper

--- In jboske@yahoogroups.com, Invent Yourself <xod@t...> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> 
> >
> > 
> >
> > In XS:
> >
> >     le ci broda: "the three broda", the group, one entity.
> >
> >     ro le ci broda: "Each of the three broda", each member of the
group,
> >                     three entities.
> >
> > What do you understand by "plurality"?
> 
> 
> Dr. Rosta's XS gives: {ci lo re plise} = "three pairs of apples"

These two definitions are not consistent with one another.  By the
second one, (in which {ci lo re plise} means "three pairs of apples"),
{ro le ci broda} would mean "all the triples of brodas" (assuming that
lo and le quantify the same way, which I'll grant is not a given).  I
don't know that xorxes' XS and And's are definitely intended to be in
perfect agreement, but it looks like they aren't here.

~mark