Re: [lojban] RE: zi'o & otpi

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

And Rosta wrote:

> All the same, can one not have an actual dog breed that is instantiated by
> no actual dog?

I'm not sure.  There are I think two plausible views of dog breeds: that they are
sets of dogs (in which case there *is* a dog breed with no actual dogs, but
only one of them -- the unique null dog breed), or that they are lineages
of dogs from a common ancestor (in which case there are no dogless dog breeds).

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