Received: from mail-wi0-f189.google.com ([209.85.212.189]:36353) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1T9kPA-0005rQ-Tn; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:18:40 -0700 Received: by wibhr14 with SMTP id hr14sf629737wib.16 for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:18:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=20120806; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=SVUBfzuzPhv0YgJot7jrAKGTltrpBZWOcasoK8m8JCQ=; b=rGyZuzeV+TcAeI7dn/BPwP2x8/Q7dXwp6YsxKiuSXUrnKaYnmYvQLiBsO8pCO9f3ZQ L60PCJOFPiRKq94+NRAc+7P7x+2af7iwctAZvffOfakMP8mpPVtdWCNIGaNwxtsgdKf5 SRxi9LpRWoLWe9DS/vfX5rqsvfe83IEzOgJukBCX9byQIy50d7ZRKPVdG7S4G0M7ur00 KzQZLOQ0wHGOp20Qq7bHqmkh/ni3mCH+95W/omRjT7zkC94HZ1NAxjvTx37xX2riMALN jAQD/4a8gOk5RLH9PNZeCsmjhT0Au1NkTUQ8tQ/hyC/5sSXggE35Q5LdZjkEmhpHYaAK +HPQ== Received: by 10.180.84.230 with SMTP id c6mr3291334wiz.2.1346969905297; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:18:25 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.14.223.136 with SMTP id v8ls9184eep.7.gmail; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:18:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.203.7 with SMTP id e7mr3200560eeo.4.1346969904503; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:18:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.203.7 with SMTP id e7mr3200559eeo.4.1346969904491; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:18:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-ee0-f46.google.com (mail-ee0-f46.google.com [74.125.83.46]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d5si4268472eep.0.2012.09.06.15.18.24 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:18:24 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of jjllambias@gmail.com designates 74.125.83.46 as permitted sender) client-ip=74.125.83.46; Received: by eekc1 with SMTP id c1so972539eek.33 for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:18:24 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.184.134 with SMTP id s6mr5156973eem.46.1346969904287; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:18:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.95.78 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Sep 2012 15:18:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <07b7573a-45c9-44be-9d03-a74aa2b1127d@q20g2000vbx.googlegroups.com> References: <369b1b83-0407-4ccf-aa59-89a5ffbaf473@googlegroups.com> <02c05dfc-7cc4-4ec6-a331-d915e2e9cdbf@s5g2000vbj.googlegroups.com> <07b7573a-45c9-44be-9d03-a74aa2b1127d@q20g2000vbx.googlegroups.com> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 19:18:24 -0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Where should I use sets and where should I use masses? From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?= To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com X-Original-Sender: jjllambias@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of jjllambias@gmail.com designates 74.125.83.46 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=jjllambias@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com; contact lojban-beginners+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 300742228892 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam_score: 0.0 X-Spam_score_int: 0 X-Spam_bar: / Content-Length: 1686 On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:39 PM, ianek wrote: > On 5 Wrz, 00:24, Jorge Llamb=EDas wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:52 AM, ianek wrote: >> >> > It's a property of being a cliquehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clique_(= graph_theory). >> >> If you restrict "simxu" to the cliques of graph theory, you can't use >> it for something like: >> >> lo zajba pu simxu lo ka ce'u ce'u sanli kei gi'e se morna lo remna prami= de >> "The gymnasts stood on one another's shoulders and formed a human pyrami= d." > > So what {simxu} really means? That the graph is connected? Maybe even that is not completely necessary. Probably something like most/almost all nodes must be connected to other nodes and the connections have to be dense enough. >Arguments > based on something that sounds good in a natural language are > suspicious for me. The definitions of Lojban words are (in most cases) > in a natural language, but it doesn't mean that they should be > ambiguous. Vague is not the same as ambiguous. You can always define a more precise word ("rolrelsi'u"? "simymu'o"? something else?) for the more specific meaning. If you make "simxu" require full pairwise distributivity, you make it practically unusable for most ordinary contexts. mu'o mi'e xorxes --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= Lojban Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@= googlegroups.com. 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