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On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, John Cowan wrote:
> Invent Yourself scripsit:
>
> > Ah ha! You're using ni for counting objects! pc, call your office!
>
> Well, counting or measuring or estimating. What else is "quantity"?
Fine by me! There's no convincing pc, who recently so disbelieved that ni
ever gets used for counting things that he accused me of being the only
one who did so.
I think the fact that the clearest example of ni + ce'u you could come up
with is a counting of objects concludes my argument: that ni's other
purported uses are simply broken (you can't measure the amount of redness
without specifying an object to measure the redness of), or covered by jei
(if the reader would be so kind as to tolerate the reals on [0, 1]), and
that the only function for ni left is to count objects -- a function which
is never sanctioned by the CLL but is common in usage, and which I
support.
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