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la and cusku di'e
> Thus, "the
> people filled the room" and "the rubble filled the room" both seem to me
> to qualify as xod-Collectives. I am thinking that lo'i/le'i/la'i might be
> suitable for this purpose, generalizing the notion of 'mathematical set'
> to something like 'collection whose properties aren't shared with its
> constituents' (cardinality being the paradigm case of such a property).
I wouldn't mind that as long as it is understood that lo'i/le'i/la'i
are more precise forms of lo/le/la but with the latter never incompatible
with the former. So:
le so'i prenu cu se culno le kumfa
The thing I describe as "many people" fills the
thing I describe as "room".
le'i so'i prenu cu se culno le kumfa
The thing I describe as "many people" focusing on its
emergent properties, fills the thing I describe as "room".
In fact, the definition of {gunma} suddenly becomes meaningful from
this perspective. We can say:
lo gunma be le so'i prenu cu se culno le kumfa
The together of the thing I describe as "many people"
fills the room.
in which case the xod-collective could be a LAhE corresponding to
{lo gunma be}, probably {lu'o}.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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