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BPFK Section: gadri

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:48:38PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
>
> --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 11:26:24AM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > > --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:42:53AM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > > > > {le} and {la} become constants instead of being automatically
> > > > > quantified as {ro le} and {ro la}.
> > > > What do you mean by 'constants'?
> > > Constants are direct references, not quantification over some set.
> > In English, for us little people?
>
> Perhaps this can be of some help:
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/log/terms3.htm

Constants are short names or abbreviations for longer names; hence
"s" is a constant when it is used to abbreviate "Socrates".

So "lo mlatu", if it's a constant, should stand for some particular,
individual cat or cats, correct? This seems in contradiction with your
proposal:

The resulting expression refers generically to any individual or
group that satisfies the predicate.

I apoologise if I'm just being dumb.

-Robin