From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Oct 18 09:43:21 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:43:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IiYSu-00020h-RT for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:43:21 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IiYSt-00020Z-Qb for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:43:20 -0700 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:43:19 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: "With /n/ confidence..." Message-ID: <20071018164319.GE14269@digitalkingdom.org> References: <925d17560710180911r61f51d1au6e5c90b63b54a724@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <925d17560710180911r61f51d1au6e5c90b63b54a724@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-archive-position: 5501 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:11:32PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote: > On 10/18/07, David Cortesi wrote: > > > > Although "with N confidence" is pedantic and stuffy in > > scientific papers, such a prefix, if concise, could have more > > general use in a logical language. "I'm 90% sure I will go to > > the store..." or "the noise in the bushes that I am .75 certain > > is a bear..." Some useful idioms could follow, like "With zero > > confidence I assert" as a whimsical way of saying "baloney", > > etc. > > What you describe would have to be a cmavo of selma'o MAI, that > turns a number into an indicator, but here are only two cmavo > there {mai} and {mo'o}, which have a different meaning. Ernh? Why does that need to be an indicator? We already have ju'o for the indicator form; for actually asserting a particular probability we have: cu'o MOI probability selbri convert number to probability selbri; event x1 has probability (n) of occurring under cond. x2 and a few gismu as well. -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/