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



--- Invent Yourself <xod@hidden.email> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Jorge Llamb�as wrote:
> > If so, isn't the restricted CLL-lo'e a waste of cmavo? A Kind-lo'e could
> > include CLL-lo'e and easily and accurately specify its restricted
> > application with {na'o} when so required:
> >
> >     lo'e cinfo na'o xabju le friko
> >     Lions typically live in Africa.
>  
> But this na'o doesn't add the definitionality implied by lo'e'e.

Add {ca'e} if you want definitionality, but are you saying that
lions live in Africa by definition of "lion"? If all lions in Africa
were to become extinct, we would need to redefine the concept of
"lion"?

mu'o mni'e xorxes


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