From cowan Thu Dec 7 12:00:14 1995 Subject: Re: comments on CONN.TXT From: John Cowan To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 12:00:14 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199512070007.TAA21114@locke.ccil.org> from "Jorge Llambias" at Dec 6, 95 05:58:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1098 Status: OR Message-ID: la .and. cusku di'e > > 11. "The place structure of "casnu" is: the mass x1 discusses/talks about > > x2 so the x1 place must be occupied by a mass". This seems nonsensical, > > unless the x1 of casnu is merely arbitrarily required to be a mass. So > > far as I can tell, only gunma's x1 needs to be a mass. la xorxes. cusku di'e > {casnu} is supposed to mean something like "x1 interchange opinions > about x2". It doesn't make much sense to have a single person casnuing, > unless they are talking to themselves. The restriction to being a mass > is nothing but that, I think. At one point it was intended to make the x1 of "casnu" a set, but someone (Nora?) pointed out that people may participate in a discussion without actually talking, so that a mass is a good model. Also, a discussion may continue with various people arriving or leaving without losing its identity. The main reason for not using an individual is that "le prenu cu casnu" would mean that >each< of them is discussing: begging the question "With whom?" -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.