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

From: Logical Language Group <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 21:14:33 -0500

At 09:29 AM 3/2/02 -0500, [email-masked] wrote:
>In a message dated 3/1/2002 8:18:39 PM Central Standard Time, 
>[email-masked] writes:
>Consider the text of each chapter of a book. Then the mass
>>of texts from all chapters are the text of the book, they
>>collaborate to be the text of the book.
>
>This is not obvious, albeit plausible. How do the details go?
>
><How about a mass of many waters, can it be water?>
>
>Sure, that one seems to work, but I wonder if it isn't just malglico from 
>the mass-noun status of "water".

If you can treat water as a mass noun, then you can treat dog as a mass 
noun. Western speakers are not used to doing so. I think you end up with 
something akin to Mr. Dog (our Trobriand Island friend).

lojbab
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