From jjllambias@hotmail.com Sat Mar 04 10:49:06 2000 Received: (qmail 18280 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2000 18:49:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 4 Mar 2000 18:49:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.241.142) by mta2.onelist.org with SMTP; 4 Mar 2000 18:49:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 68137 invoked by uid 0); 4 Mar 2000 18:49:21 -0000 Message-ID: <20000304184921.68136.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 200.41.247.40 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sat, 04 Mar 2000 10:49:21 PST X-Originating-IP: [200.41.247.40] To: lojban@onelist.com Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: Sets etc. Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 10:49:21 PST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-eGroups-From: "Jorge Llambias" From: "Jorge Llambias" la lojbab cusku di'e >Maybe And (pr pc) can fill in with his knowledge. Would a Trobriander >consider that Mr. Card covers the wall, or several instances of Mr. >Card? Alternatively, if he sees two rabbits, does his myopic singularizer >say that he is seeing "Mr. Rabbit" or 2 instances of Mr. Rabbit? I don't know about the cards, but if he sees two rabbits I bet he must be seeing an instance of "Mr Two Rabbits", or "Mr Rabbit Pair". I doubt very much he would not make the distinction between one and two. What he would not do maybe is consider two rabbits seen on different occasions as different objects, but on seeing a rabbit pair he would likely see one instance of "Mr Rabbit Pair", and the next day, on seeing a different rabbit pair, he might see another instance of the same "Mr Rabbit Pair". This is all sheer speculation on my part, of course. Pity no Trobriander has joined the Lojban list yet. co'o mi'e xorxes ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com