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cu'u la xorxes As one argument against Mr Doctor = loi mikce
>Perhaps. Like I say, though, I don't know that Mr Doctor is lo'e
>mikce. In fact, I don't know yet that s/he isn't {loi mikce} after
>all. Massification suppresses individuation, so the choosing of
>opacity vs. transparency is sidestepped there too. Isn't it?
Yes, (whole) masses are singular and thus sidestep opacity
vs. transparency, but only if you were really really sick
would you need the whole mass of all doctors to work on your
case (and you'd have to be very rich to pay them too, I doubt
any social security would cover all that).
Sorry, but that's anti-CLL. loi = pisu'o loi ro . If one doctor cures me, Mr Doctor cures me; that's Lojban baseline, and that's still my starting point. In fact, this behaviour is how come we know {loi mikce} is Mr Doctor, and not "a plurality of doctors". So I dispute your invocation of whole masses: {loi mikce} is not {pi ro loi mikce}.
Quite startling for me to discover, first that Mr Broda had gone from loi to lo'e, and then that it should be loi after all... Not a given you'll agree with either, though. :-)
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