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Nick Nicholas scripsit: > God. Not more. And, I have to hold a red card up here. If I say > "doesn't CLL-loi do job X here", it is not legitimate to answer "but > CLL-loi is wrong, because it doesn't capture English groups." I'm not > talking about English groups. I'm talking about CLL-loi. I agree with this in principle, but I deny that CLL requires us to believe that Yoko Ono married the Beatles. CLL 6.3: # A mass has the properties # of each individual which composes it, and may have other properties of # its own as well. This can lead to apparent contradictions. Thus # suppose in the piano-moving example above that person 1 has fair skin, # whereas person 2 has dark skin. Then it is correct to say that the # person-mass has both fair skin and dark skin. Using the mass # descriptor ``lei'' signals that ordinary logical reasoning is not # applicable: contradictions can be maintained, and all sorts of other # peculiarities may exist. However, we can safely say that a mass # inherits only the component properties that are relevant to it; it # would be ludicrous to say that a mass of two persons is of molecular # dimensions, simply because some of the parts (namely, the molecules) # of the persons are that small. Being married to Yoko is a property relevant to John only, not to the Fab Four. (John's being married to Yoko was highly relevant to them, to be sure. :-) ) -- He made the Legislature meet at one-horse John Cowan tank-towns out in the alfalfa belt, so that jcowan@hidden.email hardly nobody could get there and most of http://www.reutershealth.com the leaders would stay home and let him go http://www.ccil.org/~cowan to work and do things as he pleased. --Mencken, _Declaration of Independence_