Re: [jboske] Nick on propositionalism &c. (was: RE: Digest Number 134

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Jorge Llambias scripsit:

> In that case, I must conclude that {piro loi nanmu} is not just
> "some fraction of the mass of all men". In fact it has to be
> "Mr. Fraction of the Mass of All Men", the uniquization of the
> fractions, the single individual that has all fractions as its
> avatars. So {loi} is not just a conflation of Substance and
> Collective, but it also conflates Unique.

I think I must have lost track of the context. Given these sentences:

1) piro loi nanmu cu ki'ogra li 1000
2) piro loi nanmu cu ki'ogra li 1000000
3) piro loi nanmu cu ki'ogra li 1000 .e li 1000000

then I call #1 and #2 true and #3 false. *Some* fraction weighs 1000 kg,
and *some other* fraction weighs 1 Gg, but *no* fraction weighs both.

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