Re: [lojban] xorlo and masses

[John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com>]

I'm with Jones on this.  The word "mass", which you don't use all that often, 
admittedly, is totally useless for these conversations, so that is out.  
Secondly, descriptions refer to things in the domain of discourse, which need 
not be mereologically closed either up or down, and usually isn't (when I talk 
about rhinoceroses, I have never yet even thought about their brains, though I 
would, if asked, have admitted they were se besna -- still not talking about 
their brains.)  So much of what you say is off topic, indeed, irrelevant to 
Lojban, as far as I can see.  Part-whole has nothing to do with predication 
(unless you include collective/distributive in it, where it does not strictly 
belong).  Semantics is not biology or physics or ,,,, and syntax even less so.  
Nor, contrary to your last remark, does what yu say have any obvious linguiatic 
relation to 'lo besna' and 'lo xanto'.



----- Original Message ----
From: tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sun, August 21, 2011 7:53:33 AM
Subject: Re: [lojban] xorlo and masses

On 21 August 2011 12:58, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
> You do realize that, if I didn't read your last wall of text, I'm not going
> to read this one either, yes?

Yes, I do.


> If you want to have a conversation/debate over this with me, you'll need to
> do two things:
>
> 1) Stop writing essays that I am in no way going to waste my time reading.

I don't have to stop writing anything in order for you to not read it.
You already didn't.

Also, this is a public conversation. I'm submitting my thoughts to anyone.


> 2) Stop posting in this thread. start a new one. The topic you're talking
> about has nothing to do with the topic of this thread.

The topic of this thread is "lo" and "mass". I'm talking about the
"lo" and "mass" of things, like lo besna in relation to lo xanto.


mu'o

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