Re: Mr. Bird, negation, and *ivorousness

Invent Yourself scripsit:

> We might define carnivorous as "never eats plants", or as "has internal
> organs designed for eating meat and will get sick if it eats plants". If
> the former ranges over all incarnations of Mr. Bird then we have trouble.
> But it's easy to see that Mr. Bird appears in the form that satisfies the
> latter.

Correct, which agrees with my theory: "never" = "noroi", which has a
contradictory negation in it: "it is false that at any time etc. etc."

Affirmative statements about Mr. Bird are true iff true of any bird;
negative statements about Mr. Bird are true iff true of every bird.

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