From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri May 12 08:37:25 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 12 May 2006 08:37:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FeZhS-00051Y-TJ for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 12 May 2006 08:37:07 -0700 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FeZhP-00051R-U9 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 12 May 2006 08:37:06 -0700 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A63561E85; Fri, 12 May 2006 15:37:15 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: furry species? Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 11:37:11 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <20060512134132.8298.qmail@web81315.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060512134132.8298.qmail@web81315.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605121137.13626.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-archive-position: 11516 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Friday 12 May 2006 09:41, John E Clifford wrote: > This gets philosophically murky. A species of > bears is presumably at least a bunch of bears and > of course a bunch of bears can have > (distributively) fur. I've been thinking of species as sets. Sets don't have fur. You could say {lo cribe be roda cu se gacri lo kerfa}, but {lo cribe be roda} sounds like a bear that belongs to all species of bears at once, which doesn't exist. More pedantically, {ro se cribe zo'u lo cribe cu se gacri lo kerfa}. phma To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.