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BPFK Section: gadri


> 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?

Or "Mr. Cat" himself, yes. But it is not a quantification over
the set of cats.

> 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.

{su'o lo mlatu} is a quantified expression over the set of cats.
{lo mlatu} is a constant term, which refers to the individual "cat(s)".

mi nelci lo mlatu
"I like cat(s)"

Not: "Given the set of all cats, there is at least one member x
of the set such that I like x". That's {mi nelci su'o mlatu}.

mu'o mi'e xorxes







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