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Wiki page BPFK Section: Subordinators changed

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> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 03:10:46PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> > Arrgh. You mean it's regrettable that I use the English one.
> > What's really regrettable is that na goes before the selbri, a
> > very very bad decision and one that can be blamed on the Founders
> > and nobody else (JCB got this one right).
>
> I still don't get the na scope thing. Can someone explain this
> exchange to me in small words?

John interpreted {da na botpi fo de} as:

su'o da naku su'o de zo'u da botpi fo de

"For some x, it is not the case that there
is a y such that y is the lid of x."

But CLL says it should be interpreted as:

naku su'o da su'o de zo'u da botpi fo de

"It is not the case that for some x there
is some y such that y is the lid of x."

The first one is clearly true, it's easy to find examples
of things that don't have lids. The second one is clearly
false, it's easy to find bottles that do have lids.

mu'o mi'e xorxes




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