From jcowan@reutershealth.com Fri Aug 09 10:04:46 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_7_4); 9 Aug 2002 17:04:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 61262 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2002 17:04:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 9 Aug 2002 17:04:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 9 Aug 2002 17:04:45 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA00503; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:15:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200208091715.NAA00503@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:02:08 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Who wrote the Gismu Thesaurus (was: Gismu Thesaurus) To: eks2@york.ac.uk (sklyanin) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:02:08 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com In-Reply-To: from "sklyanin" at Aug 09, 2002 04:58:36 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan sklyanin scripsit: > sobde: x1 is a quantity of soya [grain/bean] of species/strain x2 > > Isn't it possible to refer to any eatable seed as "grain"? Normally, no; no one would refer to walnuts or lima beans as "grains". Normally, "grain" refers only to the seeds of cereal grasses (as wheat, rye, maize, barley, etc.), but apparently in commercial/legal usage (not in ordinary speech) soybeans are reckoned grains as well. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan Consider the matter of Analytic Philosophy. Dennett and Bennett are well-known. Dennett rarely or never cites Bennett, so Bennett rarely or never cites Dennett. There is also one Dummett. By their works shall ye know them. However, just as no trinities have fourth persons (Zeppo Marx notwithstanding), Bummett is hardly known by his works. Indeed, Bummett does not exist. It is part of the function of this and other e-mail messages, therefore, to do what they can to create him.