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Re: RXS: Rob's version of XS

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"lo is defined to be the unspecified article. When used, it could
be intensional or extensional, specific or general. Its default
quantifiers are unspecified."

Is this in any way different from XS lo? If you think it is, I would like
to see a sentence that means one thing with XS-lo and a different
thing with RXS-lo.

The thing I have doubts about is "Its default quantifiers are
unspecified." Does that mean that the sentence with lo will
always have a quantifier, but you have to glork what it is?
If that's the case, then there's a difference from XS-lo, which
simply does not have a quantifier. Not having a quantifier means
for example that {lo broda na brode} is always equivalent to
{naku lo broda cu brode}: "brodas don't brode" = "it is not the
case that brodas brode", which obviously fails if lo has a hidden
quantifier that you have to glork.

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