The compromise of uncomprehension

[Nick Nicholas <opoudjis@optushome.com.au>]

As is very clear, I just don't get what And, Jorge and xod clearly get. 
So I'll let them be able to say what they want (without getting it), 
and move on.

My solutions, having been conceived of in 3-D space, have assumed that 
all entities have at least 2 (and presumably transfinite bits); that 
atoms had a cardinality as the inner and a count as the outer; and that 
collectives had a cardinality of bits on the inner and a size on the 
outer.

There are abstractions that do not have parts in any sensible way. Like 
fondness.

These things are atoms, trivially (they don't contain, so nothing they 
contain is P(x).) These things are stuff, trivially: all none of what 
they contain is P(x). (Here's the perniciousness of the 
non-importing-ro, but whatever.)

So it's silly to fractionally quantify them: they have no bits to 
quantify over. And if there is any number of them, there is only one of 
them: their quantification is trivial.

I contend that for anything 3-D, there are always 3-D bits: it is the 
nature of 3-D space. But my colleagues want to consider the possibility 
of not considering the entity as having bits, but of thinking of it in 
the same way as fondness.

I think this is malrarbau codswallop, but Lojban has to be 
metaphysically parsimonious, and we've got to be able to speak of 
fondness anyway, so fine, they can have it.

I have my way, and speak of piro loi ci'ipa djacu
They have their way, and speak of tu'o loi tu'o djacu (there are no 
bits --- here tu'o means 'no number', not just 'no prenex'), or pa lo 
pa djacu (which is tantamount to tu'o [un-prenexed] lo pa djacu, but 
restricted to this world --- so, pa lo pa djacu-in-this-world, or pa lo 
pa ca'a djacu.)

Does this work?

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yISotQo', jupwI'. yIQuch... Dr Nick Nicholas, French/Italian,
chaq DuQuchmoHlaHbej yuch. University of Melbourne,
Don't be distressed, my friend. Be happy... Australia.
Perhaps chocolate can cheer you up. nickn@unimelb.edu.au
-- David Barron, Klingon Opera _Kang_. http://www.opoudjis.net