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

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 13:45:35 -0500 (EST)

And Rosta scripsit:

> My earlier example was "a bowl full of apples". The apples collectively
> fill the bowl but not separately.

The mass of the apples which are in the bowl, fill the bowl.

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