From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Jul 10 14:37:03 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1716 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2000 21:37:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 10 Jul 2000 21:37:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta1 with SMTP; 10 Jul 2000 21:37:03 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@skunk.reutershealth.com [204.243.9.153]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA29305; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:37:01 -0400 (EDT) Sender: cowan@mail.reutershealth.com Message-ID: <396A41C2.1695C26D@reutershealth.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:36:02 -0400 Organization: Reuters Health Information X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Invent Yourself , "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: zi'o & otpi References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Invent Yourself wrote: > Even after the last Beagle is killed and eaten, the concept "Beagle" will > remain. But not if there never had been any beagles at all. Things can "exist" in the Lojban sense even if there are none about today. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)