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Re: [jboske] evangel of sets (was: RE: Digest Number 135



And Rosta scripsit:

> > In general, whenever a property is emergent only (like leadership; you
> > are the leader of LLG but not of the members of LLG), then we predicated
> > it of a set when constructing the gimste
> 
> Ahem! This seems pretty clearly to contradict received doctrine.

Which received doctrine?  I was stating a fact about the gimste and
how it was constructed (partly by me).

> Sets have leaders only when they're sets of certain sorts of thing,

Well, "leader" is just one sense of "ralju", which really means the
distinguished member.

> so we are dealing with a notion far closer to Collective. But we have
> always opined that lV'i would be more useful as Collective, and
> if it is compatible with fundamentalism to treat lV'i in this
> way, then it is going to solve a shitload of problems.

I think it is and it does.  If we analyze when the gimste says "(set)"
and when it says "(mass)" -- which mean that the filler of this place
is semantically a set or mass respectively -- then we may have something.
Here are the ten instances of "(set)" expressed as sumti:

lo te ciste: a set of components which constitute a system
lo te cnano: a set with an average (of specified sort)
lo te fadni: a set with at least one typical member
lo se jbini: a set of points which some point is between/among
lo se plita: a set of points defining a plane
lo ve pluta: a set of locations defining a route
lo se ralju: a set with a distinguished member (of specified type)
lo te rirci: a set with at least one atypical member
lo simxu: a set whose members do something reciprocally to one another
lo te steci: a set with members that are specific (in specified manner)

Here are the instances of "(mass)" which are not optional:

lo ciste: a system
lo se gubni: a community which has joint (indivisible) rights to something
lo jenmi: an army
lo se jenmi: a community which has an army
lo kamni: a committee
lo se kulnu: a community sharing a common culture
lo se lanxe: a group of forces keeping something in equilibrium
lo lanzu: a family
lo se misno: a community to whom someone is famous
lo mixre: a mixture
lo se panlo: a jbomass off which something is sliced
lo salta: salad
lo sanmi: a meal
lo se trene: the cars constituting a train

Most of these represent groups of things such that their identity
does not consist in the specific individuals (which can come and go).

IMHO lo se lanxe and lo se trene ought rightly to be sets: take away
or add a force and you have no equilibrium, take away or add a car and
you have a different train (lo trene is the physical train, not the
abstract train which it instantiates, like the City of New Orleans
or the 5:05 to Ronkonkoma -- another example of a Unique).

Finally, here are the instances of "(mass)" where the place filler can be
a Substance or an individual -- I think these are straightforward:

lo se canja: something the object of barter/exchange
lo se cirko: something lost
lo ve cnemu: a reward
lo dirba: something emotionally valuable to someone
lo se dunda: something given
lo se friti: something offered
lo se jdima: something that is price of something else
lo se jerna: salary
lo se jinga: a prize of victory
lo kargu: something expensive
lo ve pleji: goods or services for which someone is remunerated
lo prali: a profit
lo se tivni: TV programming
lo se vamji: something valued at some value
lo se vecnu: something sold

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