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

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, John Cowan wrote:

> Invent Yourself scripsit:
>
> > But is there a divergence between Jorge's lo'e (which means kind, unique,
> > and Mister) and the CLL's lo'e (which means "typical", understood
> > precisely as the arithmetical mode: the most common type)?
>
> If CLL's "lo'e" were really the mode, or the median, or the mean, it would
> be a h'ass, and a h'idiot. But it isn't. Nor is it about (contra an
> earlier posting) intrinsicality: there is no saying which properties are
> intrinsic, just as there is no saying which are necessary and which
> contingent.
>
> Rather, CLL lo'e is about *characteristic* properties. It is characteristic
> of lions to live in Africa, to have short intestines, and to eat antelope.


Ideal? Prototypical? Definitional? Can you give us an algorithm for
deriving the "characteristic instance"? Otherwise, I don't know how to
distinguish it from a stereotype but for the potentially offensive quality
of the latter.



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