Re: [lojban] set mechanics

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:20:48AM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> 
> >From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
> >
> >Does anyone interpret:
> >
> >mi ce do ku'a na'e bo do
> >
> >as resulting in anything other than the set with the single element
> >'mi'?
> 
> Strictly that is the intersection of the set {mi,do} with
> something that would not normally be a set. "Someone/thing other
> than you" is not really the complement of the one member set {do}.
> Perhaps:
> 
> mi ce do ku'a lu'i ro na'e bo do
> 
> You need a set to intersect with another set.

Ah, yes.  I like that better.  Or maybe:

mi ce do ku'a na'e bo lu'i do

Think I like that best so far.

> (I don't understand how {to'e} could possibly work here.)

'polar opposite' sounds like it would generate the inverse when applied
to a set to me.

-Robin

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