From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jan 02 14:21:10 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:21:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H1rzl-00079T-Q2 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:20:50 -0800 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.173]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H1rzY-00078k-5H for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:20:24 -0800 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m3so4820983uge for ; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:19:59 -0800 (PST) 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=P3GFmmVyuXCClZvOB2rCk3wbcF2X7VJvGH2eYYlI3sueResmOZOMDQJGXCBEVguWjSZ/tJVh9etWKzHHx32OI3w0A6vHupjhitGhSWPo4/UvGh1F8l7KCZxRsveju/YQTqKgR6CUQKBhpIxDIxm3zza5ggJo8B7qC6OPsjO+DbA= Received: by 10.78.146.11 with SMTP id t11mr3475772hud.1167776399373; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:19:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.144.4 with HTTP; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 14:19:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 17:19:59 -0500 From: "Matt Arnold" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Mass Lojban Conversion In-Reply-To: <000301c72eb0$d0ad0430$6601a8c0@hq.squarei.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <000301c72eb0$d0ad0430$6601a8c0@hq.squarei.net> X-Spam-Score: -2.5 X-Spam-Score-Int: -24 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 13457 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On 1/2/07, M@ wrote: > Plus, the phrase "know precisely > what you're thinking about" seems redundant, it's never the case that I > don't know what I'm thinking about. I disagree. One of the most serious problems with critical thinking skills is the failure to have operating definitions for one's terms. It is difficult to answer a question if I don't know the meaning of the words used in the question. Then I literally don't know what I'm asking, which means "I don't know what I'm talking about" is true in the literal sense of that phrase. Ambiguity has its place, but is also out of place in a critical thinking context. Hitting a target, it helps for it to hold more or less still while you do so. A certain amount of ambiguity is inevitable, but it helps to limit it within what I might refer to, without stretching my metaphor too far, as a strike zone. -Matt To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.