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BPFK Section: Epistemology sumtcita

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:58:52 -0500, John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> wrote:
> Jorge Llambías scripsit:
>
> > The expansion I would propose for {bau} then is:
> >
> > broda bau ko'a = lo nu broda cu nu ko'a bangu
> >
> > This expansion, which automatically creates an event place
> > for the main bridi, might also work for other BAIs that don't have
> > event/du'u places.
>
> The trouble with that is that it's semantically vacuous.

How is it vacuous?

mi'o casnu bau la lojban
"We discuss in Lojban."

lo nu mi'o casnu cu nu la lojban bangu
"Our discussing is an event of lojban being the language used."

It says of the event of our discussion that it is an event in which
Lojban is the language used. That doesn't seem vacuous to me.
If we discuss in English, then our discussion is not an event in
which Lojban is the language used, and neither should
{mi'o casnu bau la lojban} be true in that case, even if we
are discussing Lojban for example.

mu'o mi'e xorxes