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And Rosta scripsit: > I think that's untrue. "The car is in the garage" doesn't mean the > bumper can't be outside, and "The British Council is in Paris" > doesn't mean it isn't also in Bombay. Indeed, an apple in London may be partly in London and partly not, the dividing line being arbitrary and therefore of infinitesimal thickness. I think it was cases like the car-in-the-garage that made us say, rightly or wrongly, that the outside quantifier of loi is pisu'o. -- One art / There is John Cowan <jcowan@hidden.email> No less / No more http://www.reutershealth.com All things / To do http://www.ccil.org/~cowan With sparks / Galore -- Douglas Hofstadter