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> xod@hidden.email writes:
> <<
>
> > I certainly won't claim that my {lo'e nanmu} is "the average man".
> > It is "men in general".
>
> What's the difference? Aren't their properties identical?
>
> >>
> Well, no. The average man is 5'9" tall, say; man in general is not
> any particular height. And so on through a mass of statistical
> information. Man in general seems to have only generic properties --
> being a mammal, bipedal, and the like. Xorxes {lo'e nanmu} does not
> actually work too well for "man in general" even -- and is more
> likely to be something acted upon than something acting -- or having
> properties.
How do we talk about:
1. A shark that is man-eating (even if it hasn't eaten a man)
2. A shark that isn't man-eating but maybe could be in exceptional
circumstances (e.g. facing starvation).
1 = ca'a citka lo'ei remna
2 = ka'e citka lo'ei remna
But we still want to understand the underlying logical representation
of these.
--And.