Re: [lojban] RECORD: containers

[Robin <robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR>]

Jorge Llambias wrote:
> 
> la pycyn cusku di'e
> 
> >I skip over the problem (for which lb has no better solution
> >than English) of internal and external negations -- that this is
> >a bottle but not one containing something, and simply say
> >that, given we do acknowledge that ta is a bottle
> 
> This is the point. If we take the place structures seriously,
> ta is actually being a botpi only when it contains something,
> a side effect of the inflated place structures. 

Can't you have a botpi containing nothing (or air?)?

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