From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Apr 29 11:04:18 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:04:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FZtnl-0001VI-TB for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:04:18 -0700 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.226]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FZtnk-0001VA-1I for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:04:17 -0700 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so1895206wri for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:04:15 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JflID+b8t08nJaSMjIdo3dgDlZKW85uKwMQf5CfJ/FAYMKkxQ+yajNF7rdIq6wayXY2xdddtwTtvYQjeFc6d4Dr2UReyadJDhZ2yYDEtvQu/HaxfE6tWeGNGv/MCn/tPpPO12shkk2n2H4LNHOT9p2AaoN0lswlIAIwn+eStlfw= Received: by 10.54.70.16 with SMTP id s16mr6365111wra; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:04:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.126.18 with HTTP; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:04:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <925d17560604291104g23003e58t520bc3c83a7311cb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:04:14 -0300 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?=" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: dimensions In-Reply-To: <20060429170238.66575.qmail@web38507.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060429170238.66575.qmail@web38507.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 3169 X-Approved-By: jjllambias@gmail.com X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On 4/29/06, c k wrote: > Maybe I have my dimensions screwed up, but I thought that they went like: > > 1 - point > 2 - line > 3 - plane > 4 - cube > 5 - time A point has no dimensions, a line has one, a plane two, a cube three. Time can be considered as a fourth dimension in space-time, along with the three spatial dimensions (height, width and depth). > But in le cmalu bo xunre cukta it starts with the second dimension? > > vi'i - line > vi'a - plane > vi'u - cube > vi'e - time > > So I'm wondering why they did it like that. For example vi'a is termed > "2-space interval", so it's a little confusing when vi'a is referring to the > 3rd dimension. {vi'a} is not referring to the third dimension, it indicates that some interval is two-dimensional. Now, you could ask why isn't there a word to indicate that an event is point-like, with no (relevant) spatial dimensions. That's a good question, but maybe it doesn't matter much since these words don't seem to be used very much anyway. mu'o mi'e xorxes