Subject: Re: [lojban] The bigness of a set

From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:41:05 -0500

At 08:51 PM 11/30/01 -0500, Invent Yourself wrote:
>Sets have certain properties, like cardinality, membership, and inclusion.
>Physical size is not one of them. Therefore how do we deal with a
>statement like the canonical "lo'i ratcu cu barda"? It appears that, in
>context, a reference to a set is being replaced by a reference to the
>cardinality of the set.

I think this is true for all instances of "large"/"barda" - we are saying 
that some unspecified dimension(s) of the referent are more than an in mind 
standard. In the case of sets, we happen to know what the dimension is 
most likely to be.

lojbab

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