From jcowan@reutershealth.com Fri Feb 28 10:57:50 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 18:57:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 72647 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2003 18:57:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 28 Feb 2003 18:57:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Feb 2003 18:57:49 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18ophc-0003pM-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:57:48 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18opgt-0003nv-00; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:57:03 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:57:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from [65.246.141.36] (helo=mail.reutershealth.com) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18opgl-0003nd-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:56:55 -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 NAA13744; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:54:01 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200302281854.NAA13744@mail.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:56:52 -0500 Subject: [lojban] Re: Any (was: Nick will be with you shortly) To: sbelknap@uic.edu (Steven Belknap) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:56:52 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojban-list@lojban.org, jcowan@reutershealth.com In-Reply-To: <2EE0D6C3-4B39-11D7-82B8-000393629ED4@uic.edu> from "Steven Belknap" at Feb 28, 2003 10:25:00 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 4235 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 Steven Belknap scripsit: > The typical lion's sex is unspecified, but is either male or female. No, the typical (as opposed to the average/mean/median/modal lion) is neither male nor female, because it is not a lion at all. > a pride of lions climbs in to my Ford Windstar, I can separately > consider each lion as it enters and classify each lion as being typical > or atypical. This is a different sense of "typical" from the one being used here, closer to "modal". It is expressed not with a gadri, but with "cnano". -- If you understand, John Cowan things are just as they are; http://www.ccil.org/~cowan if you do not understand, http://www.reutershealth.com things are just as they are. jcowan@reutershealth.com