Emergence solved

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

xod, this one's for you.

Hearkening back and argument I had with Jordan a month ago: now that I 
know what a collective is, and what piro is, I know how to say 
"severally", "together", and "is an emergent property".

(1) The broda severally did brode:

genai piro loi broda cu brode gi pisu'o loi broda cu brode

(2) The broda together did brode:

piro loi broda cu brode

(3) brode is an emergent property of broda

ge piro loi broda cu brode ginai pida'a loi broda cu brode

'emergent property' is a stronger condition than 'collectively did': it 
asserts that the property is true of the entirety of the collective, 
and not of any individual members of it.

In terms of my ontologies, the referents are a group with respect to 
broda, and a perfect atom with respect to brode.

i think an acceptable abbreviation of (3) is:

(3a) piro po'o loi broda cu brode

Mutatis mutandis, this also applies to substances.



So. The quartet sings (a la lojbanmass):

pisu'o le vomei cu sanga

(sometimes the soprano, sometimes the bass)

The quartet sings all together:

piro le vomei cu sanga

(but also pisu'o le vomei cu sanga, because each member of the quartet 
also sings)

The quartet sings four-part harmonies (emergent property!)

piro po'o le vomei cu vonsarxysanga

(because no subgroup of the quartet is singing four-part harmonies.)

Damn I'm good...

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