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Clifford" X-Apple-Yahoo-Replied-Msgid: 1_11477403_AHrHjkQAAO3OTsGX2gUiZkI6Wu8 Subject: Re: [lojban] Lions and levels and the like Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:23:02 -0600 To: "lojban@googlegroups.com" X-Original-Sender: kali9putra@yahoo.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of kali9putra@yahoo.com designates 98.139.212.215 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=kali9putra@yahoo.com; dkim=pass (test mode) header.i=@yahoo.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_bar: / Well, I am coming back to that view (if I ever left it). There is somethin= g which was invented by Shockley et al and now appears all over, namely tra= nsistors, the whole bunch of them, genetically .(to force a metaphor) in th= e first case, collectively in the other ( and there may bbe more ways to co= me, possibly to the point where this position no longer has simplicity goin= g for it). Sent from my iPad On Nov 14, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Jorge Llamb=EDas wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:16 PM, John E. Clifford = wrote: >> Kinds don't seem to be the sort of >> things that ruin gardens, though their exemplars may. The factual >> situation, as far as transistors, etc. are concerned, is about genealogy= , >> all transistors descend from something invented by Shockley. But that i= s at >> least as hard to express as types, so I wait a while on it. >=20 > The problem with that take is the usual one, you cannot say things > like "transistors, which were invented by Shockley (although not > quite, according to Wikipedia), are found today in practically all > electronic devices" if you don't allow that there is something both > invented by Shockley and found today in practically all electronic > devices. >=20 > I liked it better when you were of the opinion that the way in which > they were invented by Shockley may be different from the way in which > they are found all over, but that either way they are transistors, or > "the transistor" (as in English). >=20 > mu'o mi'e xorxes >=20 > --=20 > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups= "lojban" group. > To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegr= oups.com. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojb= an?hl=3Den. >=20 --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= lojban" group. 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