From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Feb 12 13:59:26 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_3); 12 Feb 2001 21:59:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 4528 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2001 21:59:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 12 Feb 2001 21:59:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta1 with SMTP; 12 Feb 2001 21:59:01 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA15290; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:59:21 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A885C3F.8070308@reutershealth.com> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:57:19 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010119 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: And Rosta Cc: lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] Imaginary worlds (was su'u) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan And Rosta wrote: > Is the Statue of Liberty made of marble? Well, perhaps in a possible world in which marble, rather than being calcium carbonate, is in fact copper. > My (excellent) answer is that it 99% is; i.e. it satisfies 99% > of criteria for SoL-hood (including having no close rivals > for SoLhood), but falls down on the "made of marble" > criterion. Well, I would rather say that it is the *counterpart* of the S of L, but not the same as it. Question: Suppose that Barbara Bush had dedicated herself to raising puppies rather than children. Would you be willing to have a p.w. in which the President of the United States was (even 95%) a black Labrador? -- There is / one art || John Cowan no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein