Re: Digest Number 217

John:
> And Rosta scripsit:
> 
> > Likewise, I accept that people are countable, but dispute that xod is,
> 
> Why? Once we have singularized xod, surely his cardinality is 1.

The reasons I've given in other messages: since a contrast between one xod
and two xods is impossible, I have no criteria for counting him. Certainly
xod is a single person, I have no doubt about that. But I can't find
grounds for thinking he can be counted as a single xod. Likewise, oxygen
is one element, but I don't think it is one oxygen. I think it is 
uncountable, qua oxygen.

--And.