RE: [jboske] What is a lojbanmass? Quantification

[Nick Nicholas <opoudjis@optushome.com.au>]

And, because I don't have the time to lawyer this yet (and I have not 
even looked at CLL!), deem everything I said in my latest to be my 
proposal, not a statement of SL. My intent is to make a proposal 
backward compatible with SL, but not to state what SL is, because SL 
doesn't even know what a substance is.

What I do not want is a situation where {loi remna} cannot refer to 
the subsance of a human; because SL clearly states that it can.

You can halve anything. My contention is, though, that since 
individuals don't have halves (half an And is not Andm, half an apple 
is not an apple), halving an individual gives you substance (half of 
And is And-goo, not a human being And.) I do not want quantifiers to 
be able to convert between ontological types, and turn individuals 
into substances --- reasonably so: quantifiers quantify, their 
quantificand is meant to be already given. So I prefer to convert the 
individual to be halved into substance first, and then fractionally 
quantify over that.

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* Dr Nick Nicholas, French & Italian Studies nickn@unimelb.edu.au *
University of Melbourne, Australia http://www.opoudjis.net
* "Eschewing obfuscatory verbosity of locutional rendering, the *
circumscriptional appelations are excised." --- W. Mann & S. Thompson,
* _Rhetorical Structure Theory: A Theory of Text Organisation_, 1987. *
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