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Invent Yourself scripsit: > We might define carnivorous as "never eats plants", or as "has internal > organs designed for eating meat and will get sick if it eats plants". If > the former ranges over all incarnations of Mr. Bird then we have trouble. > But it's easy to see that Mr. Bird appears in the form that satisfies the > latter. Correct, which agrees with my theory: "never" = "noroi", which has a contradictory negation in it: "it is false that at any time etc. etc." Affirmative statements about Mr. Bird are true iff true of any bird; negative statements about Mr. Bird are true iff true of every bird. -- You escaped them by the will-death John Cowan and the Way of the Black Wheel. jcowan@hidden.email I could not. --Great-Souled Sam http://www.ccil.org/~cowan