On May 2, 2011 2:50 PM, "Michael Turniansky" <
mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
> I love how you say to Luke "Are you a teacher? Your ability to confuse a
> simple situation is profession-worthy", and the proceed to launch into a
> highly confusing paragraph in this letter (as well as many other emails of
> yours) that always leave me scratching my head :-) (on the other hand, I
> understand his question perfectly, so confusion is in the eye of the
> beholder, I guess)
>
> --gejyspa
>
>
> 2011/5/2 John E Clifford <
kali9putra@yahoo.com>
>
>> I pretty sure it worked itself out over the last 35 years but that it was
>> ever
>> actually summarized somewhere, I doubt. The various meanings were not
>> simultaneous, but one evolved into another as we lost interest in one or
>> thought
>> we had solved it, though most have come back from time to time to haunt us.
>> I
>> am not sure I could describe all of them but one was collective action
>> (more or
>> less correctly described over the years), another was something called Mr.
>> Broda
>> (for each predicate, broda) which was an intensional object of some sort,
>> present wherever a broda was and it all it parts (Quines infamous lavagai,
>> more
>> or less, or some Trobriand islander) and having whatever properties any
>> broda
>> had, another was broda goo, the stuff all brodas were made of (the
>> extensional
>> analog of Mr. Broda, more or less). That's all I can think of at the
>> moment,
>> but there were more and numerous variations on these. Mr. Broda has
>> disappeared,
>> I think, but the collective sense is in xorlo and the goo sense is in
>> collectives of pieces of brodas. All of them floated around 'lo'.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Krzysztof Sobolewski <
jezuch@interia.pl>
>> To:
lojban@googlegroups.com>> Sent: Mon, May 2, 2011 12:43:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: [lojban] xorlo and default quantifiers
>>
>> Dnia poniedziałek, 2 maja 2011 o 17:33:07 John E Clifford napisał(a):
>> > Yucky-poo! I thought we agreed at some point never to use "mass" again;
>> it has
>> >
>> > been used over the years for at least four clearly different things and
>> at
>> >least
>> >
>> > as many that were not clear at all. All of the useful notions have been
>> spun
>> > off in different ways now, so there is no need for this term.
>>
>> Is it documented somewhere? I'd rather ask for a pointer than to ask you to
>> explain what are those four things etc. for a potentially a millionth time
>> :)
>> --
>> Ecce Jezuch
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>> One that smiled when he flew over the bay" - S. Tankian
>>
>>
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