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Nick: > cu'u la .and > > > The problem: to capture the difference between: > > > > 1. The lion lives in Africa. = A lion typically lives in Africa > > 2. I study the lion. != A lion typically is studied by me > > A bogus problem with a bogus solution. lo'e X broda != lo X ta'e broda > ; and the equivalences you draw for English are irrelevant to Lojban. > This is an attempt to make prototypes non-unique for no better reason > than a spurious copying of English, and I reject it with extreme > prejudice It is an attempt to express the logically different uses of prototypes in 1 & 2. That is, it is an attempt to distinguish between typical (inherited) properties and nontypical (noninherited) properties. It is absolutely not a bogus problem. As for the solution, it is the only solution currently on the table. --And.