Re: [jboske] RE: lo'ie != lo'ei

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Robert LeChevalier scripsit:

> Then you need the event of a box being pulped for paper-making. The point 
> is that when you need a generic of something, then you need it for some 
> particular use, and therefore what you need is the potential event of it be 
> used for that particular use.

Hmm. This formulation does seem to cover a lot of cases very neatly, and
introduces an abstraction. I cannot at the moment think of a counterexample;
I thought I had two ("John needs a wife", "John needs a cure for Ebola")
but those are both quite manageable as "la djan. nitcu lo nu da broda".

I like it.

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