Re: [jboske] Ontology #1

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

And Rosta scripsit:

> I think that's untrue. "The car is in the garage" doesn't mean the
> bumper can't be outside, and "The British Council is in Paris"
> doesn't mean it isn't also in Bombay.

Indeed, an apple in London may be partly in London and partly not,
the dividing line being arbitrary and therefore of infinitesimal thickness.
I think it was cases like the car-in-the-garage that made us say,
rightly or wrongly, that the outside quantifier of loi is pisu'o.

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