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| In a message dated 10/26/2002 9:00:39 AM Central Standard Time, jjllambias@hidden.email writes: << If {na'o} works as I say, we can say things like: >> Well, I haven't gotten to tying these notions in with Lojban words yet. However, I do think that the "possible worlds" involved need not be moe than the past -- and maybe the future. Getting off the real time line seems to me fraught with problems, basically the uncertaity of what happens when the boundary conditins change in any way that has not actually been tested ("If Socrates were a 17th century Irish washerwoman" as the extreme case, but any time someone does something that they have never done, the possibilities multiply fairly uncontrollably). In that climate, any notion of regularity: "usually," "typically," "normally" and the like becomes meaningless. |