From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Apr 24 17:33:40 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 25 Apr 2001 00:33:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 78276 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2001 00:33:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 25 Apr 2001 00:33:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 25 Apr 2001 00:33:39 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 14sDFT-0003cm-00 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:33:39 -0700 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:33:39 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Three more issues Message-ID: <20010424173339.O8953@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: ; from jjllambias@hotmail.com on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:31:37AM +0000 From: Robin Lee Powell On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:31:37AM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > la adam cusku di'e > > >It's not really that masses have contradictory properties; rather that > >they take their properties from part of their components, and the > >components may have contradictory properties. > > I don't understand how one and the same thing can have a property > and lack that property at the same time, unless I go into zen mode. No _thing_ can, but a _group_ of things can. The group of 'all human beings' has red hair. It also has brown hair. It also has black hair. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/