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wrote:
> --- John E Clifford wrote:
> > > > Yes, {lo bakni} in {mu lo bakni} does
> refer.
> > > > Possibly
> > > > and probably to more than five cows. All
> of
> > > > those
> > > > referents (not just the five that make
> the
> > > > sentence true)
> > > > do go into the model.
> >
> > Hey two things we agree on, but this seems
> > inconsistent with what you have said
> elsewhere
> > which appear to say that {mu lo bakni} = {mu
> > bakni} quantifies over cows, not just over lo
> > bakni.
>
> {mu bakni} does quantify over cows, and cows is
> perecisely
> what {lo bakni} refers to, so they are the same
> thing.
> {lo bakni} refers to the cows in the model, as
> you put it,
> and both {mu bakni} and {mu lo bakni} quantify
> over
> the cows in the model.
While I suspect you of being deliberately
obfuscatory, I'll concede that I was not as
precise as apparently I needed to be, assuming
that some things were in our common (assumed
cooperative) context. So, what I meant was
"You say here that the quantifier in {mu lo
bakni}has {lo bakni} as its range but other
places it appears that {mu lo bakni} = {mu bakni}
has the whole of existing cows as its range.
Which is correct?"