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de'i li 2002-10-25 ti'u li 11:12:00 la'o zoi. And Rosta .zoi cusku di'e
>The problem is that in the world as we usually conceive it to be,
>there is not just one lion. So {da kalte loi'e cinfo} is simply
>not a claim about the world as we usually conceive it. It's a
>claim about a version of the world as we usually conceive it, but
>where there is just one lion. In that world, {da kalte loi'e
>cinfo} is true iff someone hunts the one lion.
If, e.g., lions are on the brink of extinction due to hunting, I
think that 'da kalte loi'e cinfo' is true (taking that 'da' as
something like 'le gunma poi kalte').
mu'o mi'e .adam.