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Invent Yourself scripsit: > > 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. le'e stereotypes are subjective (not necessarily offensive); lo'e archetypes are objective (meaning that all, or all reasonable persons, agree on them; "it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent"). -- You let them out again, Old Man Willow! John Cowan What you be a-thinking of? You should not be waking! jcowan@hidden.email Eat earth! Dig deep! Drink water! Go to sleep! www.reutershealth.com Bombadil is talking. www.ccil.org/~cowan