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RE: [jboske] a personal gadri paradigm (was: RE: lo'e gadri: can weconvergetowards a resolution?



xorxes:
> la xod cusku di'e
> 
> > > massified:
> > > the individuating boundaries of each broda are erased, so that
> > > multiple broda form a single sludge:
> > >   The bowl contains *apple* 
> > >   There was *dog* all over the pavement 
> >
> >Now that I've introduced the idea of emergent properties as the
> >distinction mark of the "mass", can we agree to call the above something
> >else? Like a "substance"?
> 
> I like "substance" better for this sense too. "Mass" has been
> so much abused throughout Loglan/Lojban that it means more or
> less whatever anybody wants it to mean 

Okay. I'll try to use 'substance' and avoid 'massifier'.

--And.