Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 01:20:50 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199710140620.BAA01114@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: clani X-To: jorge@INTERMEDIA.COM.AR X-cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1013 X-From-Space-Date: Tue Oct 14 01:20:51 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU >If you intend to compare the longness (ka clani) of two objects, >then you better pick two objects that have it. For a given ka clani, >many objects won't have it. I disagree. Every measureable object has ka clani fi da. Otherwise you could not say that another object was clanymau it (zmadu fi leka/ni clani). To be less in ka/ni clani, it must still have a number/measure; otherwise one cannot make a comparison - the proper answer would be na'i to a question like "Is an atom longer than a neutrino", just as it would be to "Am I taller than a thought?". lojbab ---- lojbab lojbab@access.digex.net Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: ftp.access.digex.net /pub/access/lojbab or see Lojban WWW Server: href="http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/" Order _The Complete Lojban Language_ - see our Web pages or ask me.