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xod: > On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, And Rosta wrote: > > > The second reason is that they don't allow us to > > distinguish "For every x there is some world w such that in w > > x is broda" and "There is some world w and for every x that in > > w is broda". For example, "For every Danish mermaid, I will > > write a poem about her", normally wouldn't mean I will write > > an infinite number of poems, one for every imaginable Danish > > mermaid > > roda de zo'u ma'i de da broda > de roda zo'u ma'i de da broda That's good. > > This is the colour of bananas > > This is banana-coloured > > This is banana-shaped > > This resembles a phoenix egg > > This is phoenix-egg-like > > I think you want the universal grinder here, which churns out...lo tu'o > badna? In any case, it is what was once accomplished with lo'e/le'e The Substance of all banana is not banana shaped! However, the Unique banana is like the Substance of all banana, except that it is banana shaped (and generally has the properties of a banana). This is not a complete solution, though, because although two things shapes like a banana both have the property of being banana-shaped, they do not necessarily have identical shapes. My solution: "each thing is such that if category-membership were decided by shape alone, then it would be a banana", "It is shaped as though it were a banana". --And.