From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jan 26 12:05:07 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:05:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CttPX-0004Zm-7a for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:05:07 -0800 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:05:07 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Love Message-ID: <20050126200507.GE20235@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <20050125204703.GL2342@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 1068 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:52:46PM -0400, Betsemes wrote: > > > decide if I can or cannot put a person at x2. Could you > > > clarify? > > > > A person is an object, so yes, feel free. > > Should I assume that wherever I see "object" as an argument type I > can put a person at it? Yes, because people are physical objects. The point is to distinguish physical things (me, you, my car, the Empire State Building) from abstractions (events, ideas, facts). -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/