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On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 05:19:05PM -0000, And Rosta wrote:
> Jordan:
[...]
> > Note btw, that because of x2 of ni, we can even use ni to do "leni
> > gerku" for "the number of dogs"
>
> I still can't see "Three is the extent to which there is a dog"
> making sense. I can make sense of measuring the extent to which
> there is a dog by counting how many dogs there are, but the
> extent still seems to me to be the amount that the world has to
> change to switch the truth value.
leni gerku kei be lesi'o zilkancu le'i gerku
> What I am saying is that I can see only one scale that makes sense
> of ni, but I can see many different ways of calibrating it. If
> x2 does the calibration, then I am not bemused.
I don't understand why. I think a different scale is needed for more
or less every usage.
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Jordan DeLong - fracture@hidden.email
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