On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 09:05:41PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> And Rosta scripsit:
>
> > You drink {pisu'o loi djacu} = part of the mass of water.
> > You do not drink every part of the mass of water.
>
> No doubt, and I do not drink the whole of it either. The difference
> between "the whole of" and "every part of" is that the latter is a
> universal quantification over parts, whereas the former does not even
> require that there be any parts.
[...]
Universal quantification over parts does not require that there are
any parts either.
--
Jordan DeLong - fracture@allusion.net
lu zo'o loi censa bakni cu terzba le zaltapla poi xagrai li'u
sei la mark. tuen. cusku
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