From jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:45:00 2010 Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 19:44:42 EDT From: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Subject: Re: quantifiers on sumti - late response To: Bob LeChevalier X-From-Space-Date: X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu Message-ID: la lojbab cusku di'e > You also probably want "ce" > rather than "joi" for the non-logical link - joi creates an indivisible > mass with components and not members. In what sense "indivisible"? Suppose I want to say "I gave it to one of them, so they must have it". Is "them" a set and "they" a mass? I think that's not right, they are both masses (sets can't "have" things). We don't want to have to use different prosumti for each of those "they". > and "lo nanmu poi nenri le kumfa cu te cimei > > is a bridi that states the cardinality of the set of men in the room. Does it? To me it says "at least one of the men in the room is a member of a threesome". There may be any number of men in the room (well, at least one) and the other two members of the threesome need not be in the room. Jorge