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I will essay a full reply later. In the meantime, though, I would ask what accommodation is made for people who see the prototype as basic, and who see different dogs as different avatars of Dog? The stuff about myopic singularization and squinting is meant to show how if your starting point is a many-membered extension, you can work your way to the single prototype. But I think lo'e should just mean that single prototype. It will thereby cater to those who take prototypes to be basic, and those who don't can apply squinting to get to the prototype. (Very possibly I hadn't made this clear enough, but that was partly because I had been so unsuccessful in explaining the notion of prototype-as-basic.) In contrast, you want to insist on squinting as intrinsic to lo'e, insisting that lo'e broda can only be the product of squinting -- i.e. a derived rather than primitive concept. I see this as an unwarranted metaphysical bias. --And.