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On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, John Cowan wrote: > Jorge Llamb��)B�as scripsit: > > > Mr. Bird is indeed sometimes a parrot, sometimes an eagle, sometimes... > > Well, it's true that if I have seen a parrot (say, Paulie), I have seen > Mr. Bird. But it does not follow that if I have seen Thorondor (and > a fortiori Mr. Bird), I have seen an entity that is sometimes a parrot. > Thorondor is always an eagle. > > Similarly, some birds are carnivorous, including Thorondor, but Mr. Bird > is not carnivorous. If he were, then it would be fair to say that when > I have seen Paulie, I have seen Mr. Carnivore: but I have not. Mr. Bird is carnivorous when he shows up in the guise of Thorondor, but not when you see him as Paulie. He's a tricky fellow but we're on to him, and we now know all this "multiple bird" business is a clever illusion to conceal the fact there is only Mr. Bird. -- 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...