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--- In jboske@yahoogroups.com, Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@y...>
wrote:
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> An optional addition to XS (but not to be considered as a part of
> the basic proposal) is to use loi/lei for {lo tu'o}/{le tu'o}, i.e. for
> Substance, so xodium would be {loi marjrxodiumu} with no need to
> glork the inner tu'o.
I was wondering why something like this wasn't worked-on before.
Since the major proposals so far focus mainly, some almost
exclusively, on lo and le, why bring the other gadri into the picture?
I for one actually figured that {loi} would be good for Kind, or
Mister, or whatever, leaving {lo} still to be (potentially)
extensional, but unspecified (what Nick said before was exactly what I
had been thinking. When I say "I see a bird," I don't know which bird
I'm seeing, it's unspecified, but it isn't the Kind. It's *a*
*particular* bird, whose identity I neither know nor care about. Not
the same as "I love sitting on a pretty girl's lap" with the
understanding that any pretty girl will do). This does leave Stuff
out of the equation (at this point), though.
~mark