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As I recall, John and I wanted the abstraction to a singleton to be based on more or less all the lions in the world, and And and Jorge thought that it could be based on a small, context-determined set of lions, or even on just a single lion (to which I responded that they should use le'e for this). (I'm probably misrepresenting someone's position here, so please correct me.)
I don't base the abstraction on a small context-determined set. If
there is a lion in front of you, and you conceptualize the world
as if there is just one lion, then The Lion is in front of you,
that's all. You only have to look at the situation to describe
the situation. A claim using {lo'e cinfo} is not a claim about
each lion, it only uses the intension of {lo'i cinfo}.
I never thought of it as using possible worlds, but rather as suggesting that we reconceptualize this world and think of all lions as being one, and in fact I think that that's how And originally formulated it.
I agree. It is not related to possible worlds. mu'o mi'e xorxes _________________________________________________________________The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail