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RE: [jboske] Digest Number 134



Jordan:
> On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 03:29:04AM +1100, Nick Nicholas wrote:
> > ... If propositionalism covers everything. Like I said, by the time you 
> > get to depiction, I doubt it does 
> 
> I think depiction is a different issue, though:
> 
> Using prototype-style lo'e (which I could maybe live with, though
> I think the statistical one is better):
>         ti pixra da poi simsa lo'e since
>         ti pixra lo simsa be lo'e since
> works, I think 

They claim that any typical snake is such that this depicts
something that resembles it. "If you're a snake, then expect
to be resembled by something depicted by this." 

To me, that doesn't really capture any reading of "This is a 
picture of a snake".

--And.