Re: Cowan weighs in #4: embedded imperatives

[Chris Bogart <cbogart@quetzal.com>]

la djan cusku di'e
>> In Lojban, an imperative is true iff the command is carried out.
.i la xorxes cusku di'e
>Is that true? I thought imperatives didn't have truth values. The
>imperative is a request/order to {do} to act in such a way as to
>make the statement with {ko} replaced by {do} true. If the command
>is carried out, then the order is opbeyed. I don't see what meaning
>it has to say that an obeyed command is "true" and one not obeyed
>is "false".

I'm sure I read somewhere that lojban commands are "true" or "false" by
convention for the purpose of embedding commands into larger logical
structures: "ko mi dunda lei do rupnu .ija .ai mi catra do"

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