Re: abstractor place structures

[Edward Cherlin <cherlin@CAUCE.ORG>]

At 11:37 PM -0700 10/24/97, Logical Language Group wrote:
[snip]
>What I mean by these comments is that out of the mass of all events of
>da mitre li pa, we distil an idea or set of properties that constitute the
>concept of "meter".  But a meter is not a set of properties, it is a thing
>that has those properties.
[snip]

This certainly sounds as though you were asleep when you wrote it. Are you
being Platonist? Anyway, 'mitre' has to stand for a relation, not a thing
or a set of properties.

No, wait, I think I see what you mean. Sorry, typical nalojbo ambiguity.
'ro mitre' refers to a set of things that each have this relation to some
measuring operation and theory of measurement. Ok, so 'le mitre' describes
a thing, or at any rate some concept I am describing as a thing, while
'mitre' itself is a relation, as required.

Perhaps we need to use some signs, like quotes or Quine's square corners,
to indicate the way we are talking about words and texts.


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