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Nick Nicholas scripsit: > lo'e'au (and I content, lo'e) generates an intension not out of all > lions, but out of all typical lions. I think this is true. > Giles of Putney, 1300 AD has a mental construct of the universe which > actually is populated by dragons. He can potentially enumerate them. > They are all evil. So as far as he's concerned, the typical dragon is > evil. That dragon St George knocked off is evil, that dragon in > Beowulf is evil, etc. > > Weng Shui, 1300 AD has a different mental construct: still populated > by dragons, but they are mostly benevolent. We can dispose of this by not trying to get the same Lojban predicate to cover both "dragon"/"wyrm" and "dragon"/"long2". -- John Cowan jcowan@hidden.email www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com "The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague." --Edsger Dijkstra