Re: [lojban] Re: Three more issues

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:31:37AM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> 
> la adam cusku di'e
> 
> >It's not really that masses have contradictory properties; rather that
> >they take their properties from part of their components, and the
> >components may have contradictory properties.
> 
> I don't understand how one and the same thing can have a property
> and lack that property at the same time, unless I go into zen mode.

No _thing_ can, but a _group_ of things can.

The group of 'all human beings' has red hair.  It also has brown hair.
It also has black hair.

-Robin

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