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

From: Logical Language Group <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 21:07:20 -0500

At 08:41 PM 3/1/02 -0500, [email-masked] wrote:
>In a message dated 3/1/2002 2:56:38 PM Central Standard Time, 
>[email-masked] writes:
>> >But is a mass of text a text?
>>
>>Some masses of texts, sure. Maybe even all masses, can you
>>think of a case where it wouldn't be?
>
>I would like to see an example. The mass of texts in my library is not 
>obviously a text. What does it collaborate to do or have done to it that 
>clearly marks it as a text?

If the mass of texts in your library were treated as a single corpus for 
research, such as word frequency analysis, then it would be a text.

lojbab
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