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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 05:02:43 EDT
Subject: RECORD: abstractions from names.
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The property of being  n is mela n-- and so reference to that property 
involve leka mela n or so.
Strictly, me means "is on of the referents of''  ' ," and so differs from du 
in allowing plural descriptions to follow.  But further, me is not a 
predicate, especially not a two-place one like du, but rather a way of 
converting a sumti into a predicate, so that me la n is a one-place 
predicate.  Thus leka mela n makes sense a property in a way that leka du la 
n does not exactly.  Being John Malkovitch is, presumably, le zu'u la djan 
malkovitc.