More or less unrelated - but since the turn of the year I've had a subtle vague feeling of wanting to write about the philosophy of logic =) When we say "thing X is logical", what actually do we assume "logical" to be? Something which neatly follows a set of rules with minimal irregularities? Or something which has no, or very minimal, contradictions in the set of rules? Or, on a more broader sense - if it turns out that there are many ways to define what "logical" is, then how do we know which of the definitions is "true" or is it all down to a post-modernist "opinion"; are people totally free to pick which ever kind of "logical" they happen to like? Or can we establish some sort of "higher truth" about logic, something which is not altered by the randomness of the fashion of what this or that human being happens to favor?

Hehe, oh well. But back to Finnish grammar =) Yes, I think "lumi" is not a countable in Finnish. It wouldn't make sense to say "(1) yksi lumi", "(2) kaksi lunta", nor "(3) kolme lunta". Yet, we can use "lumet" in a plural. This might be logical, or not - depending on which kind of definition of "logic" one prefers =)

EDIT: hehe, seems like I got my html tags messed up in my first comment - which then caused all the following comments to be displayed in cursive. After a moment of confusion I figured it out and fixed the formatting of my comment.