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RE: [jboske] What is a lojbanmass? Quantification

And, because I don't have the time to lawyer this yet (and I have not even looked at CLL!), deem everything I said in my latest to be my proposal, not a statement of SL. My intent is to make a proposal backward compatible with SL, but not to state what SL is, because SL doesn't even know what a substance is.
What I do not want is a situation where {loi remna} cannot refer to the subsance of a human; because SL clearly states that it can.
You can halve anything. My contention is, though, that since individuals don't have halves (half an And is not Andm, half an apple is not an apple), halving an individual gives you substance (half of And is And-goo, not a human being And.) I do not want quantifiers to be able to convert between ontological types, and turn individuals into substances --- reasonably so: quantifiers quantify, their quantificand is meant to be already given. So I prefer to convert the individual to be halved into substance first, and then fractionally quantify over that. 

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