Message-Id: <199411271232.AA09015@nfs2.digex.net>
From: ucleaar <ucleaar@ucl.ac.uk>
Date: Sun Nov 27 07:32:01 1994
Subject:      more on lehe & ka
Status: RO
X-From-Space-Date: Sun Nov 27 07:32:01 1994
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There is a controversial but widely accepted distinction between
"defining" and "nondefining" features of a category. Taking the
familiar example of "bachelor",
   "She's a regular bachelor"
means she possesses the nondefining but not necessarily the defining
properties of bachelorhood, e.g. has no significant other, endeavours
to be sexually promiscuous, never does any housework, etc etc.
   "Technically he's a bachelor, but ..."
means he has the defining properties of bachelorhood (male & unmarried)
but not necessarily the nondefining ones.

I have been wondering whether the intention behind "ka" is that it
picks out defining properties, and behind "lehe" is that it picks
out nondefining properties. "lohe", perhaps, is supposed to pick
out both.

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