Message-ID: <344E4470.5C7E@locke.ccil.org> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:22:40 -0400 From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lojban List Subject: Re: abstractors References: <199710221811.NAA14444@locke.ccil.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 538 X-From-Space-Date: Wed Oct 22 14:22:40 1997 X-From-Space-Address: - la .and. cusku di'e > It always helps to remember that li`i was invented (before my > time) for a legless amputee who experienced having toes. This > in fact helps me to answer my own question: I would see li`i > as a counterpart of nu, that differs from nu in that nu is > the real world while li`i is the world of an individual's (x2 > of li`i) experience. Just as nu has no ce`u, then,, nor would > li'i. An excellent analysis, which I endorse. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban