Re: [jboske] individuation and masses (was: RE: mass, group,

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Invent Yourself scripsit:

> If counting is not desired, lo is just as good, signifying a quantity of
> one piece. Do you want a gadri to mark that counting isn't necessary? I
> don't see that distinction as worth marking, not when we have a chance to
> solidify the meaning of the mass-gadri, on the way to resolving lo'e. This
> is a fairly important issue, and it seems that non-countability is a
> relatively minor trait that either never matters, or can be sent to the
> selbri in those rare cases that it does matter.

"Mass" entails non-countability, and serves as a convenient marker for it.

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