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> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >Just for the recond, this is *not* a tiny change. Removing all default
> >quantifiers is, in fact, a huge change.
> >
> >It's just a change that seems to have a tiny *impact*. Different thing.
> >
> Mmm. Good point. Pondering the hugeness of the change is something I
> need to do.

The impact is almost exclusively for the better (i.e. it does not
invalidate previously valid text, but it does validate previously
suspect text.)

> But the question remains: if the impact is tiny, then in
> what sense does it fix the big problem? That is, the prior text,
> written under a "buggy" system, presumably needs some more serious
> repair than a "tiny" impact.

Basically, it solves the problem of intensional contexts by
providing another option besides quantification over the extension
of a set.

> I think the first difficulty I have is the same one you pointed out,
> Robin: "some particular cat" and "Mr. Cat" are sufficiently different
> critters that they deserve different gadri

Can we have examples please? Otherwise we get bogged down again in
meta-talk. How are they different? When do we use one or the other?

mi nelci su'o mlatu
There is some particular cat that I like.

mi nelci lo mlatu
I like cats.

ka'u lo mlatu cu kavbu lo smacu
(I know culturally:) Cats catch mice.

ju'ido'u za'a lo mlatu ca'o va kavbu lo smacu
Look! Cat(s) catching mouse/mice there!

{lo} is just an empty gadri, to be used when you don't need
to specify number, when you don't focus on the instances.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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