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In article <807csd$bgo$1@eve.enteract.com>,
Mark Rosenfelder <markrose@enteract.com> wrote:
>In article <803sbq$4ga6@odds.stat.purdue.edu>,
>Herman Rubin <hrubin@odds.stat.purdue.edu> wrote:
>>The above sentence would be 

>>	"I put the key x on the book y."
>>	"I don't see y."

>>The variables x and y can be replaced by any other symbols
>>or combinations of symbols which are not used for something
>>else at the time.

>Lojban has explicit variables; more simply, it also has a series of
>noun-class pronouns.  The classes are, cleverly, the initial letters
>of the words!  It's as if we could say

>   I don't see kit.
>   I don't see bit.

This is not adequate, as different items can have the same
initial letter.  Also, it would be difficult to substitute
known equality relations in the language.


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