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On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Nick Nicholas wrote: > And, I think that statement is bogus. The intensional lion statement > can be satisfied by the most atypical of lions; if you tame lions, and > the first lion you tame is Persian, as old as Methuselah, dyed purple > and a vegetarian, the statement will still be true. I don't see what > mode or average have to do with it. Is lo'e merpre female, because we have like 2% more females here than males? Or is lo'e merpre a person who has a 51% chance of being female? I hope you won't skew to the latter simply because, in this case, it seems to be less absurd; when you generalize what I am trying to say to other cases, you'll see that either definition of lo'e (the former = mode, the latter = mean) makes more sense in certain cases. A more palatable example might be: does the lo'e merko lanzu have 2 or 2.3 kids? And don't be distracted by the idea that one is an abtraction and the other is not. -- Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.