Subject: Re: sets, masses, &c. (was: RE: [lojban] Re: [jboske] RE: Anything but tautol...

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:22:57 EST

In a message dated 3/3/2002 8:20:28 PM Central Standard Time, 
[email-masked] writes:

> >Hence if we did want to distinguish between a bowl
> >full of apple and a bowl full of apples, I would suggest making
> >the first be full of lei apple and the second full of le'i apple.
> 
> I think that the answer is that {lo plixe pesxu} is not {lo plise}
> nor {loi plise}. The notion of {plise} incorporates shape and peel,
> it is not just about a kind of material, so {lei plise} consists
> of complete apples.
> 

Nice move! Saves another metaphysical muddle.