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On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 12:56  PM, John Cowan wrote:

> Steven Belknap scripsit:
>
>> The typical lion's sex is unspecified, but is either male or female.
>
> No, the typical (as opposed to the average/mean/median/modal lion) is=20=

> neither
> male nor female, because it is not a lion at all.
>
>> a pride of lions climbs in to my Ford Windstar, I can separately
>> consider each lion as it enters and classify each lion as being=20
>> typical
>> or atypical.
>
> This is a different sense of "typical" from the one being used here,=20=

> closer
> to "modal".  It is expressed not with a gadri, but with "cnano".

Perhaps I have misunderstood. I have interpreted your use of the word=20
"typical" to refer to a device or rule that can be used to inspect any=20=

given instance of a lion and determine whether or not it is "typical".=20=

This is *not* my understanding of "cnano", which I thought was=20
normative - a sort of vague mean/median/mode reference. My lion in the=20=

Windstar example is *not* normative, it is an example of application of=20=

a rule.

Here is the AHD definition of typical:

1. Exhibiting the qualities, traits, or characteristics that identify a=20=

kind, class, group, or category: a typical suburban community. 2. Of or=20=

relating to a representative specimen; characteristic or distinctive.=20
3. Conforming to a type: a composition typical of the baroque period.=20
4. also typ=B7ic (-=

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k) Of the nature of, constituting, or serving as a type; emblematic.

Which sense of "typical" is typical of the usage of "typical" that is 
"the one being used here"?

-Steven

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