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Re: [lojban] a construal of lo'e & le'e



In a message dated 10/31/2001 11:14:42 AM Central Standard Time, arosta@uclan.ac.uk writes:


I don't see a problem with
"re da kanla lo'e remna". Abstract away to a conceptual
realm where there is just Mr Human (some thinkers may
already be in that realm, of course), and check through
everything in the universe to find whether there are
exactly two things that be-eye him [sorry for sexism].
And so there are.


Well, except that there aren't in the universe that contains only Mr. Human, because then He (ditto) id the instantiation of all bound variables and he is not an eye.  You do have to be careful in these ontologies.