From jjllambias@hotmail.com Sat Feb 10 16:04:52 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jjllambias@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_3); 11 Feb 2001 00:04:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 47965 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2001 00:04:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 11 Feb 2001 00:04:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.241.54) by mta2 with SMTP; 11 Feb 2001 00:04:24 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 16:04:24 -0800 Received: from 200.41.210.20 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 00:04:23 GMT X-Originating-IP: [200.41.210.20] To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Imaginary worlds (was su'u) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 00:04:23 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Feb 2001 00:04:24.0011 (UTC) FILETIME=[30EA61B0:01C093BE] From: "Jorge Llambias" la djan cusku di'e >Consider Kripke's table T, which is brown and made of wood. We can >have a possible world in which T is black because someone painted it. >But can we have a world in which T itself, that very table, was >made of another material? What if we did to the table what those ancient Greeks did to that ship (I don't remember the name). We replace one small piece of wood by a piece of plastic, the table is still the table, and we keep doing that until all the wood has been replaced by plastic. co'o mi'e xorxes _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.