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On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Nick Nicholas wrote: > xod, this one's for you. > > Hearkening back and argument I had with Jordan a month ago: now that I > know what a collective is, and what piro is, I know how to say > "severally", "together", and "is an emergent property". > > (1) The broda severally did brode: > > genai piro loi broda cu brode gi pisu'o loi broda cu brode > > (2) The broda together did brode: > > piro loi broda cu brode > > (3) brode is an emergent property of broda > > ge piro loi broda cu brode ginai pida'a loi broda cu brode > > 'emergent property' is a stronger condition than 'collectively did': it > asserts that the property is true of the entirety of the collective, > and not of any individual members of it. Does pida'a leave open the possibility that a subset of the collective might also exhibit the emergent property? 5 men carrying a piano, even though 3 can manage. Does this make it substance-like? That we can add and subtract men (beyond a certain threshold), without really altering the situation, like pouring a few drops into a glass of water? -- // if (!terrorist) // ignore (); // else collect_data ();