Robin's gadri Proposal
pc:
> Someplace someone is going to have to give an explicit exposition of the
> logic of {zo'e}. It seems to be being used — here and earlier — in
> something like three different and to me incompatible ways: is it an
> open variable (one without a quantifier) or is it a pronoun for indifferent
> terms or is it a pronoun for obvious terms or is it yet something else again.
The way I understand it, using zo'e is (semantically) equivalent to
omitting the term. Sometimes it cannot be omitted for syntactic reasons,
but that does not add semantic content.
Both indifferent and obvious terms can be omitted, which is a good
thing: If either were not omissible sentences would become unbearably
wordy. Therefore, zo'e can stand for indifferent or obvious terms.
As for open variables, I would like unquantified da, de, di to be
that.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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