From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Sep 18 12:37:08 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_3); 18 Sep 2002 19:37:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 88958 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2002 19:37:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m12.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 18 Sep 2002 19:37:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Sep 2002 19:37:02 -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 PAA18118 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:48:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:36:59 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:36:59 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: I like chocolate Message-ID: <20020918153659.P1238@skunk.reutershealth.com> References: <20020918145928.L1238@skunk.reutershealth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from a.rosta@lycos.co.uk on Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 08:32:42PM +0100 From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 08:32:42PM +0100, And Rosta wrote: > {lo ka'e pavyseljirna cu blabi} or else {lo su'o mu'ei pavyseljirna > cu blabi} is true (according to my beliefs). {lo ca'a pavysljirna > cu blabi} is false. I read "lo ka'e pavyseljirna" as "something(s) which have the (innate) capability of being unicorns," and I don't think they exist either. If you want to talk of unicorns, I think you either move (implicitly or explicitly) into a world where there are unicorns simpliciter, or else you have to go meta and talk of concepts of unicorns, statements about unicorns, or whatever. "Anything you can do, I can do meta ..." -- We call nothing profound jcowan@reutershealth.com that is not wittily expressed. John Cowan --Northrop Frye (improved) http://www.reutershealth.com