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BPFK Section: Epistemology sumtcita

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On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 03:34:30PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:28:01 -0800, Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:34:43AM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 05:31:01 -0800 (PST), John E Clifford
> > > wrote:
> > > > To summarize and old point about sumtcita: the connection
> > > > between a sumtcita and some brivla mentioned in connection
> > > > with it is heuristic, not definitional. That is, the
> > > > sumtcita may have a meaning that is not exactly to be found
> > > > in the brivla and conversely.
> > >
> > > I think CLL treats it as definitional.
> >
> > I think you're very wrong. Citation?
>
> Are you saying that {bai} is not necessarily {fi'o bapli}, {gau}
> is not necessarily {fi'o gasnu}, {se ri'a} is not necessarily
> {fi'o se rinka}, etc.?

Oh. No, I'm not saying that at all. I thought we were talking
about the transformation of bridi containing sumtcita. Sorry.

-Robin

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