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On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, John Cowan wrote: > Invent Yourself scripsit: > > > 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. > > You might as well say that "lo xirma cu blabi" means "Any horse is white". > It doesn't and that's that. ca'epei .i'acu'i Help me follow your logic. This list insists that lo xirma is not specific. Then, lo xirma doesn't refer to a particular horse that you had in mind. It refers to any one or more horse(s). Where am I going wrong here? If the horse(s) is/are not restricted to a specific subset of the existing horses, then the statement ranges over all horses. -- // if (!terrorist) // ignore (); // else collect_data ();