BPFK working page Opinions regarding attitudinals
As an aid to sort out our differences regarding BPFK Section: Irrealis Attitudinals, and possibly to guide further work on the Attitudinals checkpoint, the relevant issues are recorded here.
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Veto issues
Backwards-compatibility
The connection between ai nai and the keyword "refusal" is too entrenched in usage to depart from.
- Arnt Richard
No redundancy between scalar negation of attitudinal and bridi negation
ai nai cannot impart the same meaning on a sentence as that of ai on the negation of that sentence, i.e. ai nai broda != ai na broda
- Robin
- Ted
Non-veto issues
Abolition of irrealis
There should be no irrealis attitudinals.
- Ted
Gismu deep structure in attitudinals
Nothing should be expressible as attitudinals that are not also expressible as bridis.
- Ted
Systematicity
The opposites of the attitudinals are part of a system, from which the current definition of {ai nai}, {e'o nai} and {e'o cu'i} deviates.
- Jorge
Completeness
It is inconvenient that there is no attitudinal for "accidental".
- Jorge