Re: [jboske] My last will and testament on lo'e

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Nick Nicholas scripsit:

> lo'e'au (and I content, lo'e) generates an intension not out of all 
> lions, but out of all typical lions.

I think this is true.

> Giles of Putney, 1300 AD has a mental construct of the universe which 
> actually is populated by dragons. He can potentially enumerate them. 
> They are all evil. So as far as he's concerned, the typical dragon is 
> evil. That dragon St George knocked off is evil, that dragon in 
> Beowulf is evil, etc.
> 
> Weng Shui, 1300 AD has a different mental construct: still populated 
> by dragons, but they are mostly benevolent.

We can dispose of this by not trying to get the same Lojban predicate
to cover both "dragon"/"wyrm" and "dragon"/"long2".

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