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xorxes: > 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. Did I misunderstand/misremember the example? I thought Paulie was a carnivorous bird. If I got that wrong, then everything else I said must have been total bollocks. If I originally had understood the example, I can't now reconstruct my original reasoning for saying what I said. > > 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 had thought he was. --And.