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Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 10:33:53 PST
From: "Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: lojban relationship words....
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la djan cusku di'e

>Lojban mostly takes the relativist (existential) viewpoint.  But the
>absolutist (essential) viewpoint can be induced with "ka", which
>reifies properties: "ko'a ckaji le ka pendo" means "he has the
>property of being a friend".

But, since {ckaji} is just as relativist/existential as {pendo},
that only says that ko'a appears to have that property,
not that it has it in any absolutist/essential way, right?

co'o mi'e xorxes