Re: [lojban] RE: Orcutt (again?!)

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

And Rosta wrote:


> Still, I remain to be convinced, and it is perfectly possible (and in fact true)
> that ASH and EPAMINONDAS are words that are familiar (se slabu) to me yet that
> have meanings that I know only a small incomplete and inadequate portion of.

BTW, the canonical Kripke example of this is FEYNMAN and GELL-MANN.
One may know that FEYNMAN refers to a famous physicist, and yet be
completely unable to distinguish him from the referent of GELL-MANN
by any specific properties (other than the trivial ones "named
F." and "named G.-M.").  Nevertheless one then knows that Feynman is not
Gell-Mann.

IMAO, an Englishman who doesn't know Oak, Ash, and Thorn had better
rectify himself at once.  As an aid to this, here are some pictures:
http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/pub/academic/medicine/alternative-healthcare/herbal-medicine/pictures/e-i/fraxinus-excelsior-1.jpg
http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/pub/academic/medicine/alternative-healthcare/herbal-medicine/pictures/e-i/fraxinus-excelsior.jpg
http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/pub/academic/medicine/alternative-healthcare/herbal-medicine/pictures/e-i/fraxinus-excelsior-2.jpg

This particular ash tree is somewhere in London, presumably in a park.
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