Re: Quine vs Montague, the deathmatch

la lojbab cusku di'e

> >In Lojban, the closest thing we have to "lea" is {piro loi}.
> 
> As it was understood in 1987, lea was ro lo, and not piro loi - our loi 
> being TLI's lo, there was no tie between lea and lo.

Was there any difference between "lea" and "ra" in 1987?

> The mathematicians took JCB's references to sets literally and they indeed 
> wanted a gadri for that mathematical kind of set.

Yes indeed. But JCB didn't give it to them.

> >Our {loi} took the name from JCB's {lo} but the
> >meaning of JCB's {lea}.
> 
> I see little resemblance between lea and loi.

Have you read:
http://www.loglan.org/Articles/sets-and-multiples.html
?

That article clearly describes Loglan's "set" as the collective 
interpretation of our "mass". 

mu'o mi'e xorxes



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