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BPFK Section: gadri

Jorge Llamb=EDas wrote:

>xod:
> =20
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>>It seems to me that maxims, and claims that sweep similarly broad,
>>should be translated with ro, not lo. And since ro applies to every
>>member, and hence to the whole type by definition, then in cooperative
>>usage lo will be used to discuss subsets, often but not necessarily pro=
pe=3D
>>r.
>> =20
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>
>Each and every child being forgiving of each and every grown-up
>just doesn't work, as most children don't even come into
>contact with most grown-ups. This is just about Mr Child being
>forgiving of Mr Grown-up, or "children" being forgiving of
>"grown-ups", it's not about counting instances.
>


I don't think we can simply say "don't worry about instances" without=20
proving that counting instances is absurd in this situation. Little=20
Johnny should forgive Aunt Susan; those are specific instances and it=20
makes total sense. The maxim is only a numeric generalization from this=20
extensional case.

In the situation of needed doctors, counting doctor instances is=20
demonstrably absurd.


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Motorists honked in celebration in this Ramadi as news spread of the assa=
ssination of the president of the Iraqi Governing Council Ezzidin Salim M=
onday. "The GC is nothing," one man shouted. "They are not the Governing =
Council. They are the Prostitution Council."=20