Re: [lojban] Individuals and xorlo

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Friday, May 23, 2014 21:45:35 Jorge Llambías wrote:
> (8)<<
> An empty set is {lo selcmi be no da}, and an expression {lo no broda} is
> officially meaningless (see Section
> 3.1<http://www.lojban.org/tiki/gadri%3A+an+unofficial+commentary+from+a+logi
> cal+point+of+view&bl#Inner_quantification>[image: Edit Plugin:alink]. This
> implies that an empty set cannot be expressed with {lo'i/le'i/la'i}.
> 
> 
> Arguably, lots of things can be described as "lo selcmi be no da", not just
> the empty set.  A spoon, for example, or anything else that is not a set,
> will satisfy "ke'a selcmi no da". "lo selcmi be no da" works well as a
> description of the empty set in a universe of discourse in which there are
> only sets. (But then that is really the only universe of discourse in which
> one should mention sets at all, in my opinion.)

That's why I entered "zilcmi". lo kunti zilcmi cu na selcmi .iva'i lo kunti 
zilcmi cu selcmi noda

mu'omi'e .pier.
-- 
ve ka'a ro klaji la .romas. se jmaji

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