From: "komfo,amonan" <komfoamonan@gmail.com>
To: jbovlaste@lojban.org
Sent: Fri, October 16, 2009 2:44:55 PM
Subject: [jbovlaste] Re: Esther Chapter 2
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Daniel Brockman
<daniel@brockman.se> wrote:
>> A small planet is not small in the property/dimension of being a planet. I
>> think the underlying tanru, {cmalu plini} expands to {cmalu je plini} or
>> {c1=p1 cmalu c2 c3 gi'e plini p2 p3 p4}.
>
> But even with your tanru-based expansion, you still can't avoid 'the
> property of being a planet'. After all, what is c2?
Something like {lo ka canlu ce'u}?
That was exactly my thinking.
Possibly. But I still don't see the problem in having something have the property of
being a planet. When are properties no longer properties? Obviously, for example,
length is a property. So is area, though now we have a property
that is a combination of two properties. How about flatness, now a property of more
properties. The property of being a planet is nothing more than a vast
number of properties. So? We may not be used to thinking in such terms, but then
lojban is supposed to make us think in new ways, isn't it?
totus