From lojban@lojban.org Thu Mar 07 06:55:07 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 7 Mar 2002 14:55:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 77487 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2002 14:55:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m11.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 Mar 2002 14:55:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-1.cais.net) (205.252.14.71) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Mar 2002 14:55:06 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (ppp60.net-A.cais.net [205.252.61.60]) by stmpy-1.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g27Et3e14886; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 09:55:03 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020306210535.00b6bf00@pop.cais.com> X-Sender: vir1035@pop.cais.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 21:07:20 -0500 To: pycyn@aol.com, lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: [jboske] RE: Anything but tautologies In-Reply-To: <199.31114e6.29b187d4@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: Logical Language Group X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1099080 At 08:41 PM 3/1/02 -0500, pycyn@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 3/1/2002 2:56:38 PM Central Standard Time, >jjllambias@hotmail.com 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 -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org