From jjllambias@hotmail.com Thu Aug 26 08:34:52 1999 X-Digest-Num: 222 Message-ID: <44114.222.1224.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 08:34:52 PDT From: "Jorge Llambias" Subject: Re: Anselmisms and gadro la xod cusku di'e >Whatever applies to a set must also apply to the subsets. That's not exactly true. For example "... has 5 members" applies to a set but not to most of its subsets. I know you meant that whatever applies to every member of a set must also apply to every member of the subsets. That is true, but not very informative for the empty set, since the only subset of the null set is the null set itself. But making a positive claim about {lo broda} requires the set of broda to be non-empty for the claim to be true. {lo broda cu brode} is trivially false if {lo'i broda} is the null set, and {ro lo broda cu brode} is trivially true. co'o mi'e xorxes