From mbays@freeshell.org Fri Feb 28 09:58:58 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:59:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from dhc27.chch.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.237.27] helo=thedave ident=0) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18oom4-000326-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:58:20 -0800 Received: from thedave.homelinux.org (IDENT:1001@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thedave (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h1SHwsK7008821 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:58:54 GMT Received: from localhost (martin@localhost) by thedave.homelinux.org (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) with ESMTP id h1SHwraT008818 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:58:53 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: thedave.homelinux.org: martin owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:58:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Martin Bays X-X-Sender: martin@thedave.homelinux.org To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Any (was: Nick will be with you shortly) In-Reply-To: <200302281557.KAA12194@mail.reutershealth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 4225 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mbays@freeshell.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, John Cowan wrote: > Martin Bays scripsit: > > > Then surely lo'e mikce has no particular sex - which is fine, we don't > > care about the sex - but does have an occupation (medicine), and does have > > a relevant ability (that of healing you) - which is precisely what you > > *do* care about. > > But what lo'e mikce is not is an actual doctor, since all actual doctors > do have a particular sex; it's purely an abstraction. > > OK, having consulted the Wiki it looks like Jordan's right - I'm thinking of the loi'e (proposed) meaning of lo'e. Sorry about that. -- #^t'm::>#shs>:#,_$1+9j9"^>h>" < v :>8*0\j" o'u" v" e'i" v".neta"^q> ;z,[; > > ^