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BPFK Section: gadri

pc:
> 4: Well, it is certainly possibly true here and now that I want a unicorn,
> but it is certain false of some unicorn I want it. There are no unicorns
> (and thus, as xorxes says sometimes, no Mr. Unicorn either).

I make a distinction between the predicate {zasti} and the "there is"
of existential quantification. I have no problem with:

su'o da naku zasti
There are things that don't exist (in this world).

I wouldn't say that there is no Mr Unicorn. I'd say that Mr Unicorn
is such that he does not exist in this world (and the same thing I
would say of Mary Poppins, for example.)

mu'o mi'e xorxes





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