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And Rosta scripsit: > And I think that prototype theory > would accept that the statistical mode is an important factor > in defining prototypes, though it is not the only factor nor an > overriding one. Agreed. Swans would remain prototypically white even if Australia were crawling with black swans to the extent that they outnumbered all the Eurasian and American ones. > But of course this does not mean that a claim about > a prototype is a claim about a statistical mode. +1 -- What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the John Cowan sound of a [Ww]all that people have stopped jcowan@hidden.email banging their head against? --Larry http://www.ccil.org/~cowan