[lojban] Re: the 17 tallest men

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> wrote:
> Pierre Abbat scripsit:
> 
> > But Lojban has grammatical setness and massness, so we can say "The
> > subset which, considered as a mass, is tallest among the 17-element
> > subsets". Since the place structure of pazemei is "x1 is the mass of
> > set x2 which has 17 members x3", {le clarai ke nanmu pazemei} refers
> > to the mass and {le clarai ke nanmu te pazemei} to the individuals.
> 
> That works if we say (which is somewhat counterintuitive) that the
> height of a mass of men is determined by totaling the heights of
> the men inside the mass.

It will also work for the average (mean), which may be more
intuitive. It won't work for the mode or the median though.

mu'o mi'e xorxes




	
		
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