From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat May 23 08:16:31 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 23 May 2009 08:16:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M7sxa-0002Wp-2p for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 08:16:30 -0700 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.249]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M7sxR-0002Vv-0E for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 08:16:29 -0700 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so4800469and.1 for ; Sat, 23 May 2009 08:16:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=fUUJa5cuTzmYugCKDDNNbrkL5dNmQs3RafXtty+bNYE=; b=eKxHGaArBlLHAdYY2hBkooUBB+fvpPGl9IETkv7Z2tYP3PD8NDYC9G/ZVJ3AermMWr h04YxBIrnhlHZ451bBIZhHPYYpTko2fj2OJQOAgVuMvaueIOWUG+V/fmwuudvhSI/Vk3 o9KRk6CSsgsXMxPVz6OpRakBKvb36E5cZbnHI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=IPsWNBk/4dv3XqZCrcwRWv5kcLWF4CqGBZ/STMw3rzQyDvl5ExuAyjkY9CNE/UQj3a XhMOoO74ytTsCw2kciyGBXTFcHVCCHDx/V+vyJHhHrLNDK6VN7tZQVLLKGHLJazo6q7s /DLe5zWbCc/wrwqETJu8OrOOq/rwF/tdEA14o= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.248.13 with SMTP id v13mr9335549anh.123.1243091779718; Sat, 23 May 2009 08:16:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4de8c3930905230224w6af4dac0rb4c3e806f9a3b617@mail.gmail.com> References: <4de8c3930905230224w6af4dac0rb4c3e806f9a3b617@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 12:16:19 -0300 Message-ID: <925d17560905230816t33831cc3la27ca826c76db42b@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Mass From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?= To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 1699 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 6:24 AM, tijlan wrote: > There is a Wiki article on the mathematical "set", which is what > "lo'i" is about. But I can't seem to find one on "mass" that explains > the nature of "loi". Is there any alternative term to "mass" in the > sense of "loi" that we can look up on Wikipedia? I can't find any specific article, but see "Collective vs. distributive predicates" in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicate_(grammar) "loi" marks the subject of a collective predicate. It's similar to the role of "together" in English. mu'o mi'e xorxes