Re: [lojban] Re: Cake, Pie or Ice Cream?

[And Rosta <and.rosta@gmail.com>]

Jorge Llambías, On 09/01/2011 20:19:
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 5:04 PM, John E Clifford<kali9putra@yahoo.com>  wrote:
> > Happily, if the sets are L-sets (just the things mentioned), then the issue of
> > how 'ce' groups is irrelevant, as it is clearly meant to be (I pass over teh
> > objection to talking about L-sets, since that is irrelevant, too).
>
> You seem to be saying that we never talk about sets in the language
> (only in the metalanguage). That's fine with me, we don't really need
> sets. But if so, is there any difference between "ko'a ce ko'e" and
> "ko'a jo'u ko'e"?

Surely there is a need to distinguish {a, b, c} from {{a, b}, c} in ordinary language and thought, where "{}" is some kind of group with members.

--And.

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