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Re: [jboske] lo'e, le'e

In a message dated 10/17/2002 3:30:21 PM Central Daylight Time, a.rosta@hidden.email writes:

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They mean "In a version of the world conceptualized in such
a way that lo'i/le'i broda has only a single member, the
single member of lo'i/le'i broda is...".

I can appreciate that this may not fill you with a desire to
embrace them in your usage (though it does have that effect
on me), but I would hope at least that my understanding of
the two gadri is now clear.

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Ignotum per ignotius.  The contrary-to-fact conditionis too remote from the real world for me to have any idea what follows (cf. "If Socrates were a seventeenth century Irish washerwoman,...")

xod
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I don't see how this is any clearer than the CLL's explanation. I suppose
you're referring to the infamous Mister Rabbit here.
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There were times that I actually thought I understood some versions of Mr. Rabbit; I have no such illusions about this (or about most of them, now).