Re: [lojban] Digest Number 497

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

BestATN@aol.com wrote:

> All this talk about bottles not being bottles because they don't contain
> anything seem vacuous to me (pun intended).

But "botpi" doesn't mean "bottle", the noun; it means "to bottle", the verb.

> A bottle always contains
> something, even if that something is only a vacuum, indeed empty space.

That depends on whether you consider a vacuum Something or Nothing.

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