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Martin Bays, On 30/09/2012 00:52:
If I ask how many legs the mass of cats has, the answer might be large, but if ask how many legs it has *at the location of a particular cat*, wouldn't it make just as much sense to say that the answer to this is 4 as it would to say this for the MS? If this is so, then what is gained by having both masses and MSs in the ontology?
MS is basic -- you can conceive of MS cat without having to decide whether there is more than one cat. But if you want to allow for the possibility of there definitely being more than one cat, then there is massification (as well as distributivity). --And.