Re: [jboske] What is a lojbanmass? Quantification

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Nick Nicholas wrote:

> I now see why And judges loi as redundant to substance/individual:
> individuals are things quantified by natural numbers, masses are
> things quantified by [0,1]. But collectives are also things
> quantified by [0,1]: you have half a collective, even though you also
> have 2 ppl out of the collective. And you certainly can have pisu'o a
> collective.



Let's not lose sight of the fact that a collective is not signfied by any
particular quantification, but by the presence of emergent phenomena. It
is numerically equivalent to plurality without emergent properties.



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