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[lojban] Re: Poll (not lojbanic, but whorfish)



On Nov 18, 2007 3:20 AM, Cyril Slobin <slobin@ice.ru> wrote:
> If you see a plastic bag with two books inside and a pair of shoes,
> how much items do you see? And, if your answer is not 1 or 5, list
> these items, please.

Are the shoes in the bag? Are we supposed to count the bag? If the
shoes are in the bag, I wouldn't count the bag itself. If not, I
wouldn't count the books unless they're visible. I'd always count the
shoes as two.

Chris Capel
-- 
"What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to bat a bee? What is it
like to be a bee being batted? What is it like to be a batted bee?"
-- The Mind's I (Hofstadter, Dennet)


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