From ragnarok@pobox.com Wed Jan 16 03:15:00 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: raganok@intrex.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 16 Jan 2002 11:14:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 57099 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2002 11:14:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m11.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 16 Jan 2002 11:14:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO intrex.net) (209.42.192.250) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Jan 2002 11:14:59 -0000 Received: from Craig [209.42.200.98] by intrex.net (SMTPD32-5.05) id A0AC1D0400BC; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 06:14:52 -0500 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] po'u considered harmful Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 06:15:00 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-eGroups-From: "Craig" From: "Craig" Reply-To: X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=48763382 X-Yahoo-Profile: kreig_daniyl >>mi me le ci nolraitru = I am Caspar, Melchior, or Balthazar. >>mi du le ci nolraitru = We are Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar. >The first is true and the second false, right? >Whatever {ko'a} refers to, {ko'a du le ci broda} has to be >false (unless you're Catholic), because if something is equal >to each of three broda, then each of the three is equal >to the others, but then it is one thing, not three! Unless {ko'a goi lei ci broda}, because then {lei ci broda du le ci broda} - which I assume you are going to agree with. Since part of the mass that is ko'a is the pamai broda, the whole mass has the property of being the pamai broda; the same goes for the remai and cimai.