From: Logical Language Group Message-Id: <199412052140.AA13421@access2.digex.net> Subject: Re: lohe, lehe & ka Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 16:40:36 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojbab@access.digex.net (Logical Language Group) In-Reply-To: <199412020515.AA18711@nfs1.digex.net> from "ucleaar" at Dec 2, 94 01:19:41 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24beta] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1226 Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Mon Dec 5 16:40:52 1994 X-From-Space-Address: lojbab la .and. cusku di'e > > > Say there's a pile of papers on my left and a pile of papers on my > > > right. I can't differentiate between each individual sheet of paper, > > > but I can differentiate between the two piles. This is what I > > > meant by distinguishing between masses. For you, we would have > > > "re pisuho loi papri". la xorxes. cusku di'e > > No, I never said that. "repisu'o" is a single number, two point something. > > You can't easily quantify over fractions of the total mass. la .and. cusku di'e > Am I commiting some logical fallacy in assuming we can quantify over > fractions? I don't see why. Or do you mean it's difficult to do it > in Lojban? It's not difficult per se, but needs more machinery than you provide. Consecutive number-strings coalesce in Lojban, so "re pisu'o" is, as Jorge says, "repisu'o", which is not immediately interpretable; it probably means "a number greater than 2, but less than 3", but might also signify "2, which in this context represents a part of the whole quantity". As I said in an earlier posting, "re lo pisu'o loi papri" gets two portions of the paper-blob. -- John Cowan sharing account for now e'osai ko sarji la lojban.