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And Rosta scripsit: > 1. substance > 2. prototype. > 3. unique. I think this is exactly the Right Thing in every respect, and with the addition of 4. individual(s), should form our new gadri system. I do think however that the term "unique" is bad, because it suggests that there is literally, rather than notionally, only one of the thing. Whereas in fact what I take to be going on is a sort of superposition of the actual things (birds, Superbowl games, etc.) We can talk of "the LLG meeting" using this form, because it is an annual recurrence of the same thing. -- John Cowan jcowan@hidden.email www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com "The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague." --Edsger Dijkstra