Re: lohe, lehe & ka

[Jorge Llambias <jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU>]

> > > But this is not so: there are zillions of books
> > > not sought by me, and it would be inappropriate to insert in the
> > > Encyclopaedia Britannica entry for Book the information that I
> > > was looking for one to prop open my door.
> >
> > Who says you have to write in the entry for Book everything that can be
> > claimed about {lo'e cukta}?  Does the entry for London tell about what
> > happened in one of its buildings on May 27th just after lunch?
>
> Well if that is a fact about London, it would go in the ideal encyclopedia.

I'd hate to have to search for any useful information in that ideal
encyclopedia. It sounds like Borges' library of Babel.


> I find this stuff very mindboggling, but I recall from long ago
> John Cowan explaining this. I think (tentatively) that piro loi
> dodo *is* called Fritz.

Then what's the difference between {piro loi cipnrdodo} and {pimu
loi cipnrdodo}?

> > I disagree that all properties of the members
> > are properties of the mass, if that is what you are saying.
>
> Well I am saying this, but in my defence I do think it Came From On
> High.

I know, but you don't believe everything that comes from Up There,
do you?

> -----
> And

Jorge