> massified: > the individuating boundaries of each broda are erased, so that > multiple broda form a single sludge: > The bowl contains *apple*. > There was *dog* all over the pavement.
Now that I've introduced the idea of emergent properties as the distinction mark of the "mass", can we agree to call the above something else? Like a "substance"?
I like "substance" better for this sense too. "Mass" has been so much abused throughout Loglan/Lojban that it means more or less whatever anybody wants it to mean.
> collectivized: > a group of things jointly > The *apples* filled the bowl.
So, a multiplicity, without emergent properties?
"Fill the bowl" is an emergent property. None of the apples does it by itself. Collective is what I understand {lei} to be, and from your comments you seem to agree.