From cowan@ccil.org Wed Mar 06 19:32:24 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 7 Mar 2002 03:32:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 73726 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2002 18:45:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m6.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 Mar 2002 18:45:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Mar 2002 18:45:32 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16igPv-00041E-00; Wed, 06 Mar 2002 13:45:35 -0500 Subject: Re: sets, masses, &c. (was: RE: [lojban] Re: [jboske] RE: Anything but tautol... In-Reply-To: from And Rosta at "Mar 6, 2002 01:29:50 pm" To: And Rosta Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 13:45:35 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan 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. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --_The Hobbit_