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Re: why no posts? III
While there are cmavo for converting (reference to) a number of individuals
into (...) a mass or a set, and masses to set, and conversely all around, the
relationships among these various entities remains controversial -- or
rather, how to say what with them, or what some saying with them means does.
Sets have little to do with their members except to specify a common property
they possess and to count them up for a cardinal. Masses have properties
that are the "sums" of the relevant properties of their members, but just
what that means varies from predicate to predicate -- and perhaps from place
to place around a predicate -- as the references are used as sumti. Even the
default quantifiers are open to some question: there are many cases where,
for example, {piro} seems the natural quantifier in oblique positions with
{lo} -- even if only a part of a mass acts, the whole is acted upon (a small
group stormed the Bastille but the whole people suffered the consequences).
Sometimes.
Probably a whole page of words newly coined, English expression not
satisfactorily translated into lb, and lb words whose meanings are unclear
could be added here, but I leave them for a later page.