RE: [jboske] loi'e = loi ?

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>]

xod:
> I think that we have to look at Mr. Bird the same way we look at Mr. Nick
> Nicholas: Does Mr. Nick wear diapers and suck on a pacifier? Yes,
> sometimes he does. Usually he doesn't. Individu-izing Mr. Nick into a
> collection of Nicks, one for each day or month, we see that only the baby
> Nicks wear the diapers. When coagulated into a Mr. Nick, though, we
> consider all the Nicks as a single entity, who is all the avatars
> simultaneously 

Exactly so.

> So Mr. Bird usually flies (when he looks like an Eagle) but sometimes he
> can't (when looking like a penguin). The contradiction lies in our
> (reasonable?) difficulty in really seeing all birds as a single Mister 

Yes.

> This Mister stuff seems pretty useless to me, but that's exactly why we
> need it!

I'm glad you think this, because I have for some months been saying
that this is your real opinion even if you hadn't yet realized it!

> I think that loi cipni has a billion wings, but Mr. Bird only has 2 

Me too. So even though Nick is frustrated by the disagreement, there's
also a lot of agreement going on.

--And.