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--- John Cowan <cowan@hidden.email> wrote: > 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"). (Something that has the property is just {da poi broda}.) > Slogan version: Kinds are properties are reified predicates. This would be a big deviation from usage of {ka}. We would be able to say: lo ka prenu cu so'iroi klama lo ka zarci kei fu lo ka karce People often go to the market by car. That's nothing like the usual ka=du'u version of ka, where properties don't go to properties driving other properties. mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com