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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 15:27:30 +0200
From: "Adam Raizen" <araizen@newmail.net>
Subject: Re: Sets etc.
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la xorxes cusku di'e

> la djan cusku di'e
> 
> >Sets can be sliced into members in only one way: masses, in many
> >different ways.
> 
> {ko'a joi ko'e} can only have two members, ko'a and ko'e.
> {lei pano mlatu} can only have 10 members, each of the cats.
> Maybe some masses can be sliced in different ways, but I can't
> think of any example. Unless you are thinking of things like
> {lo djacu} as a mass, but that is not a mass in the
> grammatical sense.
> 

lei pano mlatu cu jersi le bolci

Let's say that only 4 of the individual cats actually chased the ball. 
Why can't I consider those 4 to be one of 2 members of the mass, 
the other member being those that didn't chase the ball.

i co'o mi'e adam
araizen@newmail.net
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