From LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Sun Dec 3 07:03:11 1995 Reply-To: "Steven M. Belknap" Date: Sun Dec 3 07:03:11 1995 Sender: Lojban list From: "Steven M. Belknap" Subject: "standard" sumti To: John Cowan Status: OR Message-ID: Either every gismu should have both a standard sumti and a scale sumti or no gismu should have them. The current seemingly random position and existence of standard sumti makes no sense. If all gismu had them, then one could say stuff like: X1 X2...X(N-2) by standard X(N-1) on scale X(N) If none had them we could deal with standards using some other formalism. Among other benefits, such as regularizing all gismu, this would allow us some more options in expressing fuzzy sets. co'o mi'e la stivn Steven M. Belknap, M.D. Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medicine University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria email: sbelknap@uic.edu Voice: 309/671-3403 Fax: 309/671-8413