On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Nick Nicholas wrote:
> But Ms May wants to talk to Any Doctor --- whether it's Jay, Kay, or
> Hay. So we get the doctor out of the prenex up front, and put it inside
> the embedded proposition:
>
> pa da poi ninmu zo'u:
> da djica lenu
> pa de poi mikce zo'u:
> da tavla de
OK, that was a Nixon Prenex; illegal in Lojban, aren't they?
> > Can someone explain this tuples-vs-sets distinction to me? When I use
> > the word "tuple", I mean "ordered list of fixed but unspecified size".
> > Or is "tuple" being used here as a cover term for "duo, trio, quartet,
> > ..."
> > rather than "pair, triple, quadruple, ..."?
>
> As usual, I don't know what I'm talking about.
In this discussion, "set" has meant the nearly useless mathematical
object which has only a few, rarely needed qualities, like membership and
number of members. n-tuple was introduced, I thought, as a general term
for "gang", which may or may not have qualities of its members.