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xod: > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, John Cowan wrote: > > > Invent Yourself scripsit: > > > > > But is there a divergence between Jorge's lo'e (which means kind, unique, > > > and Mister) and the CLL's lo'e (which means "typical", understood > > > precisely as the arithmetical mode: the most common type)? > > > > If CLL's "lo'e" were really the mode, or the median, or the mean, it would > > be a h'ass, and a h'idiot. But it isn't. Nor is it about (contra an > > earlier posting) intrinsicality: there is no saying which properties are > > intrinsic, just as there is no saying which are necessary and which > > contingent. > > > > 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. I don't see why an algorithm must be specified. CLL-lo'e is used to make exceptionful generalizations, and the basis for their validity as generalizations is left to glorking. What's wrong with that? --And.