From jcowan@reutershealth.com Tue Feb 29 06:42:13 2000 X-Digest-Num: 379 Message-ID: <44114.379.2093.959273826@eGroups.com> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:42:13 -0500 From: John Cowan Subject: Re: Use and abuse of sets reciproc@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote: > le'i ratci barda > "The set of rats is large" > "There are many rats" > Which is much more simply and clearly expressed "so'i ratci" or something > similar. That's not a sentence: it says "many rats". But here's another example: mi ralju le'i fenki I am-the-chief-of a-specific-set-of crazy-ones. I am the bull goose loony [from _One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest_] Having a "chief member" is a set property. > However, there should be a gismu for mathematical set, since this > *is* a logical language after all -- we shouldn't be forced to use lujvo. "klesi" is the gismu for "set", because classes and sets are the same concept, except for certain exceptions among the transfinite classes. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! || John Cowan Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)