From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed May 19 10:36:59 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 19 May 2004 10:36:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1BQUzr-0003V4-5c for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 19 May 2004 10:36:51 -0700 Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 10:36:51 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: The Analytical Language of John Wilkins Message-ID: <20040519173651.GH6978@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040519164756.GF6978@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20040519171745.51469.qmail@web41908.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040519171745.51469.qmail@web41908.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7928 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:17:45AM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > These ambiguities, redundances, and deficiencies recall those > attributed by Dr. Franz Kuhn to a certain Chinese encyclopedia > entitled Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. On those remote > pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that > belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, > (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, > (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that > tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn > with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have > just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a > distance.[...] I'd love to see primary source for this. Whilst looking for it, I found a comparison between that list and the DSM-III-R. :-) http://home.vicnet.net.au/~borth/MAJORITY.HTM -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Many philosophical problems are caused by such things as the simple inability to shut up." -- David Stove, liberally paraphrased. http://www.lojban.org/ *** loi pimlu na srana .i ti rokci morsi