Subject: Re: [lojban] Beyond Whorf: "things," "qualities," and the origin of nouns and adjectives

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 23:30:15 GMT

la jimc cusku di'e

>On the word "potential", my opinion is that it's still a vessel or bottle
>when it's evacuated, so the referent of "its contents" is the empty set.

There is no question that an empty bottle is still a bottle
in English. But in Lojban I don't think we can say that it
still actually botpies when it doesn't botpi anything.

You wouldn't say in English that the bottle contents are
still bottle contents when outside of the bottle, at least
not for long. Would you say that {se botpi} are still {se botpi},
perhaps being the contents of the empty set?

co'o mi'e xorxes

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