Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 09:54:30 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: [lojban] Idea about taxonomic vocabualry
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On Monday, September 1, 2014 10:56:25 AM UTC-4, la gleki wrote:
>
> Semantical categorization of the universe can't be done since most 
> concepts have more than one useful tag.
> Look at this attempt:
> http://mw.lojban.org/index.php?title=semantic_categorization_of_gismu
> It is not perfect and no attempt can be perfect.
>

I've no illusions about achieving perfection. In fact, I think that's a 
common fallacy about the taxonomic approach --even Wikipedia fails here by 
equating it to "philosophical language". To me its just about utilizing 
patterns to make a language easier to learn, understand and use.

(@clifford well said)

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<div dir=3D"ltr">On Monday, September 1, 2014 10:56:25 AM UTC-4, la gleki w=
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al categorization of the universe can't be done since most concepts have mo=
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=3D"_blank" onmousedown=3D"this.href=3D'http://www.google.com/url?q\75http%=
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://mw.lojban.org/index.<wbr>php?title=3Dsemantic_<wbr>categorization_of_gis=
mu</a><br>
</div><div>It is not perfect and no attempt can be perfect.</div></div></bl=
ockquote><div><br></div><div>I've no illusions about achieving perfection. =
In fact, I think that's a common fallacy about the taxonomic approach --eve=
n Wikipedia fails here by equating it to "philosophical language". To me it=
s just about utilizing patterns to make a language easier to learn, underst=
and and use.</div><div><br></div><div>(@clifford well said)</div><div><br><=
/div></div>

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