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

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

And Rosta wrote:


> Eh? What am I missing? -- "pa djacu cu du lo djacu" seems wholly true.


Should have been "pa djacu cu du re djacu"


> #(Oy, I curse the day that I decided to merge selma'o DU and GOhA.)
>
> Why?


Because tanru with du are useless, and it would have been more Zipfy
not to have to use "cu" in sentences like that.

> My point is that if you take it as an
> abstraction arrived at by averaging and selecting typical properties,
> then you get the distinction between having properties that [a] by default
> inherit to all instances of the abstraction (e.g. living in Africa), and, on 
> the other hand, having properties that [b] don't by default inherit to all 
> instances of the abstraction (e.g. being discussed by us).


Ah.  This sounds like the difference between a typical property of lions
and a property of the typical lion.  [a] is both, but [b] is only the
latter.

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