| In a message dated 8/29/2001 7:30:29 PM Central Daylight Time,
xod@sixgirls.org writes: Dogness, a property or a quality? Fiveness? There can't be any instance of Oi. A nominalist! But I think I knew that. By "an instance of a quality" do you mean a particular quality or something that has a quality? In Lojban as it seems to be set up (with {ka} and {du'u} belonging together), it appears that not quality (or is that property?) is observable. And of course there are losts of instances of things that have qualities that are not observable: sets (to be controversial), invisible things (to play it safer), quarks (I'm never sure where those lie, since nominalist tens\d to get all fuzzy at this point) and so on. |