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Nick:
> cu'u la .and
> >Jordan:
> >> On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 12:33:32PM -0000, And Rosta wrote:
> >> > 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
> >>
> >> #2 is a si'o abstraction
>
> >I meant not by 2 that I am a psychologist but that I am a
> >zoologist. If #2 is a si'o abstraction then the example is
> >irrelevant. If #2 means that I am a zoologist, then the example
> >is not irrelevant. I intended the example in the relevant
> >sense
>
> Still no dice. I understand your conundrum --- what to do with
> intrinsic and non-intrinsic claims of the prototype. But I think the
> solution --- which is certainly reflected in what others (John?) have
> said about the prototype --- is not to predicate anything of the
> prototype that isn't definitional to it. In the same way that you
> cannot say {mi kavbu lo'e cinfo}
>
> So #2 is not a fact about the prototype, unless lions are defined by
> the fact that you study them. Rather, #2 is a fact about the Kind
> (which I am going to start pushing for your Unique, because Kind is
> intelligible. And yes, your rendering is 'map Kind to Individual'; I
> say that should go in the small print, because Kinds are something we
> understand in English.)
Okay: I accept this as a solution. Prototype is not the only generic,
and sometimes Unique is the appropriate generic.
I don't have a problem with Unique being construed as Kind, so long
as that doesn't lead to extrapolations inconsistent with the
definition of Unique.
--And.