From: cbmvax!uunet!ee.mu.OZ.AU!nsn
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Cc: nsn@ee.mu.OZ.AU
Subject: MU
Organisation: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Melbourne
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Date: Thu, 01 Aug 91 17:23:28 +1000
Status: RO


Date: Wed, 31 Jul 91 00:13:36 PDT
From: doug@netcom.com (Doug Merritt)
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In-Reply-To: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
       "Rhesponses" (Jul 30,  9:57pm)
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Subject: Re: Rhesponses


>Someone earlier mentioned the need for words to refer to truth values
>other than true & false. The word "mu", from the Zen tradition, means
>that an inappropriate (possibly paradoxical, possibly not) question
>was asked, and that the answer is neither true nor false. It means
>"unask the question".

Funny that, but I am reminded of lojban's metalinguistic negator {na'i}.
{na'i go'i} means: "your question is bullshit" (mutatis mutation).

Just thought I'd say that.

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Nick S. Nicholas,			"Rode like foam on the river of pity
Depts. of CompSci & ElecEng,  		 Turned its tide to strength
University of Melbourne, Australia.	 Healed the hole that ripped in living"
nsn@{mullian.ee|mullauna.cs|ecr}.mu.oz.au     -	S. Vega, Book Of Dreams
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