From lojbab@lojban.org Sat Mar 11 12:33:59 2000 Received: (qmail 29741 invoked from network); 11 Mar 2000 20:34:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 11 Mar 2000 20:34:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy.cais.net) (199.0.216.101) by mta2.onelist.org with SMTP; 11 Mar 2000 20:34:08 -0000 Received: from bob (dynamic198.cais.com [207.226.56.198]) by stmpy.cais.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA20551 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 15:33:17 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000311153120.00b678f0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 15:32:52 -0500 To: lojban@onelist.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Mass/Set In-Reply-To: <20000311174627.42115.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-eGroups-From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 09:46 AM 03/11/2000 -0800, Jorge Llambias wrote: >la pyjymym cusku diŽe > > >(I didn't wish to make any claim on probability distribution of eating > >situations behind the claim {lei nanmu cu citka lo plise}.) > >Now that I think about it again, I don't agree that >{lei nanmu cu citka lo plise} is similar to >{su'o nanmu cu citka lo plise}. It really depends on >what exactly does {citka} mean. Does eating a fraction >of an apple count as "eating an apple"? It better, since most people who eat apples only eat a fraction of them, discarding the core. > I think it doesn't, >so if some men (as a group, together) eat an apple, it may >be the case than none of them can be said to have eaten an >apple by himself. 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 (newly updated!)