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Nick:
>For now, I think "countable innards = collective, uncountable
>innards = substance" is good...
Me too.
>... but if you slice each person precisely in half, you still have a
>substance with countable innards. Because hemi-humans are not the
>product of the universal grinder; but they sure don't belong to any
>notion of collective of humans, either. Hm. This is bad. We can
>disambiguate with {poi na se cmima lo nalmulno}, but yeah, we either
>pragmatically allow this, with only a default 'entire members', or we
>leave the lojbanmass utterly vague, and start eyeing at the
>alternatives (like sets for collectives -- no question that their
>members are entire.) Yeah, this is a problem...
Not a problem, because qua countable innards they aren't remna:
"loi re broda" requires that each countable member be either a
single broda or at least some broda (more on that when I'm back in
Blighty).
--And.
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