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



xod:
> 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 

In a parallel thread I am arguing that the cardinality is not 1 but
Mr Za'ono.

--And.