Re: Events, Sisku, le, lo

[John Cowan <cowan@DRV.CBC.COM>]

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> As I learned it, the referent of a set in extension is all of the members
>  separately.
> Example:
>
>     mi nelci ro lo mlatu
>     I like all cats = I like cat #1 AND I like cat #2 AND etc. etc.
>
> Whereas, the referent of a set in intension is the set itself:
>
>     mi nelci lo'i mlatu

Just so.

> I'm not really sure what that would mean, applied to cats, which are not
> collective creatures, although to me it makes
> a lot more sense when used for numbers and things like that.

The problem is with "nelci", which just doesn't make much sense
when applied to sets.   Not many non-mathematical predicates do,
although "ralju" (chief) and "cnano" (normal) are exceptions.

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