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Re: [jboske] The two lo'es (was: essentials of a gadri system)



Invent Yourself scripsit:

> If lo'e is objective though, there must be an algorithm which we can apply
> to derive it. Such as, if not "inspect every 'Lion' and thusly compute an
> average", then "interview every member of your culture and compile a list
> of the features which a majority of respondents believe are
> characteristic"; in other words, an aggregate stereotype.

Or "Ask a broda-ologist what the properties of lo'e broda are", or any
number of other techniques.

-- 
John Cowan  jcowan@hidden.email  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com
"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarves."
        --Murray Gell-Mann