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On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, John Cowan wrote: > Invent Yourself scripsit: > > > I think you're trying to say that the most we can say about Mr. Bird is > > that he has the minimal properties shared by 'all birds'. I believe this > > is given by lo jai ka cipni; whereas le'e = le jai ka cipni. > > No, because it's true that <theKind> cipni se viska mi, which is not a property > shared by ro lo cipni. You're right; lo jai ka cipni is not instantiable. For if it's instantiated here, that would imply that being right here is a property that's intrinsic to birdness. -- 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...