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At 01:03 PM 1/12/03 +0000, And Rosta wrote:
So you accept the distinction between the two, but McGovern counts as a what-if, I take it. Okay, I had misunderstood you. So McGovern as president in 1972 is a what-if, but Colin Powell as president in 2010 is a potential, I presume. And all what-ifs are equally unverifiable. Fine. But we still need to find ways of expressing "could have been" as distinct from "imaginary", even though you subscribe to a philosophy that holds the two to be indistinguishable.
puka'ejenaicaka'e is explicit "could have been but isn't still possible". lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@hidden.email Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org