Re: [lojban] No title, since the subject will have changed by the time it gets there

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

Well, sorta.  A maximal bunch is a bunch (L-set, plurality) in a single domain 
of discourse that contains all the relevant objects (the current ones almost 
always, the past ones often. the possible ones occasionally -- probably only the 
possible ones from proximal worlds).



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From: maikxlx <maikxlx@gmail.com>
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Sent: Wed, November 23, 2011 11:23:28 PM
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Good subject line!

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:34 PM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 2. {lo broda} refers to a bunch of brodas (either an L-set or a plural
> reference, as your ontological conscience guides you), fixed by context but
> possibly not terribly specific. The bunch may have a single member or 
encompass
> all brodas that have ever been and maybe more (all in this universe of
> discourse, of course, though maybe not in this world).  These latter, maximal,
> bunches  represent brodakind for all practical purposes. Because of the
> transparency of bunches, such a bunch of brodas is also a bunch of kinds of
> brodas, etc.  These maximal bunches might usefully have a separate gadri.

In Montague's program, an intension is just the function that maps
world-time indexes to extensions.  So for a one-place predicate like
{nanmu}, the intension expressed by {lo nanmu} gives you a set of
mundane {nanmu}s at each word-time index.  You get the extension that
you want by specifying or glorking the world and time.  Is this
something like what you have in mind when you say "maximal bunches"?

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