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de'i li 2002-11-09 ti'u li 23:05:00 la'o zoi. John Cowan .zoi cusku di'e >Jordan DeLong scripsit: > >> I think A-E-I+O+ is what we need for this, to keep the system >> consistent. I agree with you and xod, that, as Nick was suggesting, >> we really can ignore this as in normal conversation it's really a >> "na'i" to talk about things which don't exist, despite being logically >> true. > >I agree as well, except I call it logically false rather than true. >A trivial distinction, he said airily. How about "Some planets are inhabited by humans" and "Some US presidents are male". Are those logically false too? They all sound as false or true to me as "Every unicorn is white" sounds. mu'o mi'e .adam.