Re: Types of numerals
From: | Dennis Paul Himes <himes@...> |
Date: | Thursday, January 19, 2006, 3:21 |
tomhchappell <tomhchappell@...> wrote:
>
> Actually, if it were really XOR being so generalized, it would mean:
> "exactly an odd number of the following arguments" (as opposed
> to "exactly an even number of the following arguments").
This is true in the sense of treating a generalized conjunction as a
repeated application of that conjunction. But, of course, there are several
possible generalizations in the sense that the generalization becomes XOR
when restricted to two arguments. In my conlang Gladilatian every
conjunction can apply to two or more arguments, and the one which reduces to
XOR for two arguments, "fna ... wo", means, "exactly one of".
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