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wrote:

> --- John E Clifford wrote:

>
> By bridi operator I meant an operator that
> takes
> a bridi as an argument and returns a bridi. A
> function
> from bridi to bridi.
>
> > After all, the
> > descriptor (even if you don't think it is a
> > quantifer) is a bridi operator in the normal
> > sense of the phrase and you hold it creates a
> > referring expression.
>
> A gadri is a function from bridi to sumti, yes.
>
> > Is it the difference
> > between a (to put this in Lojban terms)
> > bridi-forming operator and a sumti-forming
> > operator?
>
> Right.
>
> > If that is the case, then I will accept
> > that it is the whole bridi which makes the
> > reference, not just the term (though I don't
> > really believe this).
>
> I don't have a problem with that. But then you
> need to turn that bridi into a sumti in order
> to
> use it as a reference, and that's what gadri
> do.
>
Puzzlement. I thought you just agreed that the
sentence as a whole makes the reference. What
more can using a gadri do?