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Re: [jboske] An Amateur note on Substance (was: Transfinites)

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Robert LeChevalier wrote:

> At 10:08 AM 1/13/03 -0500, Invent Yourself wrote:
> >I never meant to imply that ro should be restricted to
> >integers/countables. Upon a little reflection, it seems that the inner
> >quantifier of a substance should always be 1, referring to all the amount
> >of that substance in existence.
>
> 1 = pa
> or
> piro
>
> Your words/explanation looks like the latter while the numeral looks like
> the former.




ro = pa in this case of substance, I think. It's just one big glob of
cardinality 1.




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