Re: Mr. Bird has 2 wings (was: essentials of a gadri system)

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Jorge Llambías wrote:

>
> la djan cusku di'e
>
> > I am using the word "carnivore" in the sense not of an animal that eats
> > animal flesh, but in the sense of an animal that (with trivial exceptions)
> > eats nothing else.
>
> Mr Bird is carnivore only in some instances. If we say that a
> person is "vegetarian" if they will not eat meat, then someone can
> be vegetarian at a given time time, even though they have eaten meat
> before they became vegetarian. Similarly, Mr Bird can be carnivore
> in a given instance.


If we allow Mr. Bird to assume all the properties of every bird, one at a
time, what is the use of such a concept?

I think that at one time, when lo'e was understood to mean "typical", mi
viska lo'e cipni meant I saw something that had 2 wings. Mr. Bird
sometimes has one wing; if I allow the lo'e cipni which I saw to be
interpreted by others as possibly having one wing, it seems rather a
useless concept.

ni'ocu'i

We think of the typical lion as having a mane, but really, that only
reflects the males, which might be only half the lion population.



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