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la and cusku di'e > john: > > And Rosta cusku di'e > > > > > I think it is fair to say that when you see Paulie you have seen Mr > > > Carnivore. I don't agree. Paulie the canary cannot be an avatar of Mr Carnivore. Mr Carnivore and Mr Bird are not the same Individual. > Mr Polar Bear is > certainly a subkind of Mr Carnivore, but I would be inclined to say > that he isn't an avatar of Mr C, though all avatars of Mr PB are > avatars of Mr C. Right. I would reserve the word avatar for the conventional individuals. Mr Bird is not an avatar of Mr Carnivore, nor an avatar of Mr Blue. Mr Bird sometimes is a carnivore, and sometimes is blue, that's all. > Anyway, while I accept that seeing Paulie and > Larry can count as seeing the same thing (viz Mr C), Why would seeing Paulie count as seeing Mr C? Mr C and Mr Bird have avatars in common, but Paulie is not one of them. >I don't accept > that it follows that seeing Paulie counts as seeing a polar bear > (or Mr PB). Clearly it doesn't, but it can't count as seeing a carnivore either. It can only count as seeing something that sometimes (but not that time) is a carnivore. That time Mr Carnivore is not present. mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com