From cowan@ccil.org Wed Mar 05 19:34:20 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_1); 6 Mar 2003 03:34:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 24312 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2003 02:44:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m10.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 Mar 2003 02:44:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Mar 2003 02:44:13 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18qlMk-0002kZ-00 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 21:44:14 -0500 Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: The Any thread In-Reply-To: from Craig at "Mar 5, 2003 09:15:59 pm" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 21:44:14 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan Craig scripsit: > I need the doctor to exist, and I need a doctor. I can't need the doctor if > the doctor is nonexistant. No, you're definitely wrong about that. You can most certainly need something that doesn't exist. If you are dying of thirst in the desert, you need nearby water, but there is none. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --_The Hobbit_