RE: [jboske] loi'e = loi ?

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>]

xod:
> Since each of the fellows can't carry the piano alone, are we then
> justified in claiming that their mass can't carry the piano either? When
> there is a contradiction between the characteristics of one or every
> individual, and the characteristic of the mass taken as a mass, surely the
> mass characteristics are correct and the others are wrong. To make lojban
> mass the union of the actual mass and the individuals is destructive, and
> beyond the intention of the designers, and can't help us real jboka'e
> either. It can't be defended by formalism or naturalism, but only the
> understandable desire to shoehorn a solution into a hasty compromise after
> an argument that's super-za'o 

I agree with what you've been saying about 'masses' and about Mr Bird,
and I agree with the further points you make in this paragraph.

--And.