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Jordan: > On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 08:01:13PM -0000, And Rosta wrote: > > Jordan: > > > I'll retract my statement about "lo'ei" being > > > poorly defined---it's certainly better defined than And's Unique > > > stuff at least, > > > > Which definition did you find poorly done, and which particular > > elements of the definition did you have trouble with? > > The definition for Unique makes sense, but it's not a very precise > way of looking at things. Under the way you define it, the exact > properties of the Unique-thing are completely up to the speaker---basically > anything can be predicated of it > > So the problem wouldn't be the definition, so much as the meaning Surely not everything can be predicated of uniques -- of Jordan, of oxygen, of London, of homo sapiens, of magenta, of Tuesday, etc. It seems to me that the properties of these are not completely up to the speaker, and that we don't have a problem with their meaning. --And.