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On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, John Cowan wrote: > Invent Yourself scripsit: > > > But is there a divergence between Jorge's lo'e (which means kind, unique, > > and Mister) and the CLL's lo'e (which means "typical", understood > > precisely as the arithmetical mode: the most common type)? > > If CLL's "lo'e" were really the mode, or the median, or the mean, it would > be a h'ass, and a h'idiot. But it isn't. Nor is it about (contra an > earlier posting) intrinsicality: there is no saying which properties are > intrinsic, just as there is no saying which are necessary and which > contingent. > > Rather, CLL lo'e is about *characteristic* properties. It is characteristic > of lions to live in Africa, to have short intestines, and to eat antelope. Ideal? Prototypical? Definitional? Can you give us an algorithm for deriving the "characteristic instance"? Otherwise, I don't know how to distinguish it from a stereotype but for the potentially offensive quality of the latter. -- The Pentagon group believed it had a visionary strategy that would transform Iraq into an ally of Israel, remove a potential threat to the Persian Gulf oil trade and encircle Iran with U.S. friends and allies...