From xod@sixgirls.org Mon Jul 10 13:49:12 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31919 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2000 20:49:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 10 Jul 2000 20:49:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (207.252.3.72) by mta1 with SMTP; 10 Jul 2000 20:49:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.9.3+3.2W/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA20265 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:49:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:49:08 -0400 (EDT) To: Lojban Listserver Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: zi'o & otpi In-Reply-To: <396A2F8D.49849055@reutershealth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, John Cowan wrote: > And Rosta wrote: > > > All the same, can one not have an actual dog breed that is instantiated by > > no actual dog? > > I'm not sure. There are I think two plausible views of dog breeds: that they are > sets of dogs (in which case there *is* a dog breed with no actual dogs, but > only one of them -- the unique null dog breed), or that they are lineages > of dogs from a common ancestor (in which case there are no dogless dog breeds). Even after the last Beagle is killed and eaten, the concept "Beagle" will remain. ----- Wait! RSA Algorithm is coplicated, so many mathematical calculation. Please, wait for a little while or more during Decryption as your computer system.