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la .pycyn. cu cusku di'e
> As noted, the problem remains whatever the universe assigns to 'broda'.
>   If every part of each broda is a broda, then there are no (even
> relative) individuals to enumerate.  If there are ultimate brodas then
> the full generality which 'lo' was to represent is unrealized and we are
> thrown back into muddled world of Mr. Broda and Brodatude and myopic
> singulars, with even less support than we had before.

But not every part of each broda is a broda in every universe, and 
neither do all universes consider only full broda as a broda. It always 
depends on which differentiation criteria are applied to the world in 
each situation.

Mr. Broda is just one way of slicing up the world into referents. There, 
all broda are considered one and the same (or you could say there is 
only one broda and then you get to myopic singulars).

In another universe, all parts of a missing body could be considered 
referents of the missing John Smith which police are trying to find.

In yet another universe, what you would think of as being one thing can 
be split into several separated only by their position in time. E.g. 
each night's moon is a new one. "tonight's moon is prettier than last 
night's moon".

Each situation warrants a new set of differentiation criteria and based 
on those we get different possible referents which not only {lo} can 
refer to, but also {le} and {la} and {da}.

mi'e la selpa'i mu'o

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