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And Rosta scripsit:
> For any property there is a Kind, that is all. In an ideal world, it
> would be as easy to talk about the Kind that embodies that property
> as about "da" that has the property and "it" that has the property.
On this view, I think the Kind is simply the x1 of ka, so it is actually
easier to talk about the Kind ("da poi ka broda") than to talk about
something that has the property ("da ckaji de poi ka broda").
Slogan version: Kinds are properties are reified predicates.
> In my analysis, "This branch resembles two snakes" is "two subtypes of
> Mr Snake", & my judgement is that this is a sufficiently ordinary thing
> to want to say that it warrants having a shortcut to say it.
What's wrong with "This branch resembles a snake type-of twosome?"
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