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On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, John Cowan wrote: > Invent Yourself scripsit: > > > How about "mi nitcu 1 mikce"? Since there is no doctor in mind, and this > > is unspecific across all doctors, any single doctor will do; > > Nope again. That means "There exists an X such that X is a doctor and I > need X, and for every Y that meets those conditions, Y is identical with X." > So there are two ways to falsify this: one is if you reject every doctor, > the other is if you accept two or more distinct doctors. Let's see this. (le cpedu) mi nitcu 1 mikce (le tercpe) .uo .i mi jarco la spak. poi mikce (le cpedu) .uonai .i'enai .i mi nitcu 1 mikce This makes no sense, because Dr. Spock is a doctor. It only makes sense if line 3 is: (le cpedu) .uonai .i'enai .i mi nitcu 1 mikce ba'e poi broda I say by not specifying what sort of doctor he needs, or even indicating that there are unspoken in-mind restriction conditions, he is asking for any doctor. -- // if (!terrorist) // ignore (); // else collect_data ();