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Nick Nicholas scripsit: > I want to talk to Mr Bird ( = a bird, any bird.) This whole speech works for me reading "Mr. Bird" as I do as "loi cipni". > 1. Mr Bird can fly: TRUE. Mr Bird cannot fly: FALSE. > 2. Mr Bird can fly: TRUE. Mr Bird cannot fly: TRUE. > 3. Mr Bird can fly: NA'I. Mr Bird cannot fly: NA'I. > > In case (1), we have my statistical Median Bird, which is not your Mr > Bird. For if you are seeking Mr Bird, (1) would rule out a penguin as > being an avatar of Mr Bird." But this works equally well if it isn't the mode of the individuals but rather closeness to the prototype that counts. Again I mention the hypothetical in which most swans are black (but confined to Australia) whereas the prototypical swan remains white. -- Henry S. Thompson said, / "Syntactic, structural, John Cowan Value constraints we / Express on the fly." jcowan@hidden.email Simon St. Laurent: "Your / Incomprehensible http://www.reutershealth.com Abracadabralike / schemas must die!" http://www.ccil.org/~cowan