Return-Path: From: cbmvax!uunet!math.ucla.edu!jimc Return-Path: Message-Id: <9107100441.AA27004@sonia.math.ucla.edu> To: lojban-list@snark.thyrsus.com Subject: Re: example of mass In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jul 91 11:53:41 EDT." <9107081153.aa17303@COR4.PICA.ARMY.MIL> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 91 21:41:43 -0700 Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Wed Jul 10 13:28:35 1991 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!math.ucla.edu!jimc Arthur Protin writes: > I do have a major problem with the example for "lei". I do not > accept that an airplane can be reasonably considered a mass of parts. Anything involved with masses is a mess, to my mind. We really have to figure out what they mean; the various "official" definitions I have seen have been plausible but at best non-unique in the sense that "loi" means one thing in one context and something else elsewhere; at worst the definitions have been unuseable. I certainly don't claim my example is much better. But I had to do the best I could. For a while some progress was being made in list discussion about masses; maybe it will pick up again later. -- jimc