Re: Use and abuse of sets

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la djan cusku di'e

>But here's another example:
>
>	mi ralju le'i fenki
>	I am-the-chief-of a-specific-set-of crazy-ones.
>	I am the bull goose loony [from _One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest_]
>
>Having a "chief member" is a set property.

Yes, according to the gismu list. But you could just as
clearly say: {mi ralju lei fenki} and there is no change
in meaning that I can detect. Requiring the x2 of ralju to
be exclusively a mathematical set does not make sense,
because there are many places that allow both sets and
masses. A serious distinction between masses and sets
would require that no place could take both, but that is
not the case in Lojban.

co'o mi'e xorxes

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