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RE: [jboske] What is a lojbanmass? Quantification




la and cusku di'e


Nick:
> So I prefer to convert the
> individual to be halved into substance first, and then fractionally
> quantify over that

You're quantifying over bits of substance, not over substance.
Since the same fractional quantifier can arguably quantify over
members of a collective or set, too, I agree that the lo-phrase
before application of the quantifier must be converted into the
desired type.

Is the consensus then that "fractional quantifiers" are true quantifiers? "piro" means "each bit of", and not "the largest possible bit of" (="the whole")? That may be preferrable as long as there are no default quantifiers so that we can still refer to wholes. But then how do we say "a large bit of", given that {piso'i} would mean "many bits of"?

mu'o mi'e xorxes






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