From sentto-44114-3549-963260740-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Mon Jul 10 20:23:38 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 21612 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2000 20:23:37 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 10 Jul 2000 20:23:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 7728 invoked by uid 40001); 10 Jul 2000 20:25:45 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 7725 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2000 20:25:45 -0000 Received: from hk.egroups.com (208.50.144.91) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 10 Jul 2000 20:25:45 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-3549-963260740-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.36] by hk.egroups.com with NNFMP; 10 Jul 2000 20:25:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 28888 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2000 20:25:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 10 Jul 2000 20:25:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta1 with SMTP; 10 Jul 2000 20:25:34 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@skunk.reutershealth.com [204.243.9.153]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA28459; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:19:28 -0400 (EDT) Sender: cowan@mail.reutershealth.com Message-ID: <396A2F8D.49849055@reutershealth.com> Organization: Reuters Health Information X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i686) X-Accept-Language: en To: And Rosta , "lojban@onelist.com" References: From: John Cowan MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@egroups.com; contact lojban-owner@egroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@egroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:18:21 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: zi'o & otpi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit And Rosta wrote: > All the same, can one not have an actual dog breed that is instantiated by > no actual dog? I'm not sure. There are I think two plausible views of dog breeds: that they are sets of dogs (in which case there *is* a dog breed with no actual dogs, but only one of them -- the unique null dog breed), or that they are lineages of dogs from a common ancestor (in which case there are no dogless dog breeds). -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Need a credit card? Instant Approval and 0% intro APR with Aria! http://click.egroups.com/1/6034/4/_/17627/_/963260740/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com