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RE: [jboske] Why ro is importing & nobody should mind

John:
> And Rosta scripsit:
> 
> > When we ordinarily want to truthfully quantify over apparently
> > empty sets we are in fact quantifying over sets that are nonempty
> > in some world other than This One. 
> 
> And we can always achieve this with unrestricted quantification and
> a conditional:  "for each thing X, if X is Pegasus, X can fly" is a strictly
> Real World way of saying "Pegasus can fly" 

Excellent point.
 
--And.