Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: [jboske] RE: Anything but tautologies

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:03:06 -0500 (EST)

Jorge Llambias scripsit:

> A set of people cannot carry a log, a mass of people can.
> The question is, can a sequence of people carry a log?
> 
> It is a reasonable question, because Lojban provides articles
> for sets and for masses, but not for sequences, so sequences
> will have to be a subtype of one of those.

Why so? Perhaps one cannot use an article directly, but must use
a LUhA.

But if you insist on an article, I guess le'i works better for me
than lei.

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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [email-masked]
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