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

Invent Yourself scripsit:

> > 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.

le'e stereotypes are subjective (not necessarily offensive); lo'e archetypes
are objective (meaning that all, or all reasonable persons, agree on them;
"it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent").

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