From jcowan@reutershealth.com Sat Sep 28 12:28:26 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 28 Sep 2002 12:28:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [65.246.141.151] (helo=mail2.reutershealth.com) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17vNGJ-0008DP-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 12:28:23 -0700 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA07108; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 15:36:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200209281936.PAA07108@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 28 Sep 2002 15:24:35 -0400 From: John Cowan Subject: [lojban] Re: ka ka (was: Context Leapers) To: xod@thestonecutters.net Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 15:24:35 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20020928023620.U70515-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> from "Invent Yourself" at Sep 28, 2002 03:07:32 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 1676 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Invent Yourself scripsit: > The book explains this with a meaningless sentences: "Example 5.4 conveys > that the blueness comes and goes, whereas Example 5.5 conveys that its > quantity changes over time." Specifically, the "whereas" makes it mean > ingless because there is no difference between the two clauses. (The high > quality of the rest of the CLL makes the conceptual chaos of this > notorious chapter all the more noticeable.) You betcha. I knew damned well I was skating on thin ice when I wrote this chapter. The other really bad chapter is the logic one. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com http://www.reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Humpty Dump Dublin squeaks through his norse Humpty Dump Dublin hath a horrible vorse But for all his kinks English / And his irismanx brogues Humpty Dump Dublin's grandada of all rogues. --Cousin James