From jcowan@reutershealth.com Fri Feb 28 08:01:23 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_4); 28 Feb 2003 16:01:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 87937 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2003 16:01:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 28 Feb 2003 16:01:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Feb 2003 16:01:22 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18omws-00018V-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:01:22 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18omwZ-00014h-00; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:01:03 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:01:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from [65.246.141.36] (helo=mail.reutershealth.com) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18omw4-00010D-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:00:32 -0800 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (mail [65.246.141.36]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA12194; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:57:37 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200302281557.KAA12194@mail.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:00:29 -0500 Subject: [lojban] Re: Any (was: Nick will be with you shortly) To: mbays@freeshell.org Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:00:29 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: from "Martin Bays" at Feb 28, 2003 03:39:02 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 4223 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: John Cowan Reply-To: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan Martin Bays scripsit: > Then surely lo'e mikce has no particular sex - which is fine, we don't > care about the sex - but does have an occupation (medicine), and does have > a relevant ability (that of healing you) - which is precisely what you > *do* care about. But what lo'e mikce is not is an actual doctor, since all actual doctors do have a particular sex; it's purely an abstraction. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan "It's the old, old story. Droid meets droid. Droid becomes chameleon. Droid loses chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid gets blob back again. It's a classic tale." (Kryten, Red Dwarf)