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BPFK Section: Logical Variables

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Oops! sorry.
But why would a plural variable make the statement you give false? Again, a plural variable *may* take several values, but one is the limit case.

Jorge Llambías <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar> wrote:


> Re: BPFK Section: Logical Variables
> The note misstates the situation for plural variables. A plural variable may
> take several objects as value, but whether it takes them one at a time or
> t9ogether to fit a predicate depends upon the predicate (place), whether it
> calls for distributive or collective use.

The note just says: "A plural variable could take more than one value
at once to satisfy a predicate." It doesn't say it _has_ to take them
at once.

> Thus, given ways to mark the
> requirements of places, {da} etc. could equally well be plural variables --
> as they so often are in practice now (though always with distributive use
> assumed).

If da's were not singular, things like these would be false:

pa da broda ijo ge su'o de broda gi ro di poi broda cu du de
Exactly one thing1 is a broda iff some thing2 is a broda and
every thing3 that is a broda is that thing2.

mu'o mi'e xorxes




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