Return-Path: Message-Id: From: eric (Eric S. Raymond) Subject: Identity? To: lojban-list Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 23:24:48 EDT X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Tue Jun 25 23:25:24 1991 X-From-Space-Address: eric At the risk of re-opening a debate of which people may have become tired, I'd like to get some reactions to the two proposals I made last week. Resolved: That lojban should require a distinction between 1. The `is' of formal identity ("Two plus two is four"). 2. The `is' of material identity ("That is the truck that hit me.") 3. The `is' of reference ("That is John.") Resolved: That the `is' of material identity should be banished as conducive to semantic unsanity. -- >>eric>>