Re: [lojban] Scales vocabulary construction

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Felipe Gonçalves Assis
<felipeg.assis@gmail.com> wrote:
> ki'esai xorxes
>
> I guess {kaicmi} could then mean "x1 pertains to scale x2."?
>
> I wonder if a scale can be described as anything more than an
> arbitrary collection of
> properties... E.g. Should a scale be always closed under conjuction?

I don't think so, being red and blue at the same time is not really a
color, being brother and father at the same time is at least unusual.

> Disjunction?

Probably not. If I ask what color this is, I prefer a more definite
answer than "red or blue". I wouldn't say "red or blue" should count
as one color.

> Scalar negation? Should such an algebraic characterization affect our lujvo?

In the ideal case, the properties should probably be a "natural"
partition of some domain, but then no actual case is ideal.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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