From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Tue Oct 19 08:03:12 1993 Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Tue, 19 Oct 1993 12:06:58 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Tue, 19 Oct 1993 12:06:53 -0400 Message-Id: <199310191606.AA06651@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 7270; Tue, 19 Oct 93 12:04:53 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 3049; Tue, 19 Oct 93 12:07:23 EDT Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 12:03:12 -0400 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: TECH: "philosophy" (was: toldi nunsenva) X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch In-Reply-To: <9310191300.AA00436@omega> from "dave@VFL.Paramax.COM" at Oct 19, 93 09:00:02 am Status: RO X-Status: mi'e .djan. .i la deiv. cusku di'e > The field of cognitive psychology deals with how people think and reason. > This would be a natural referent for "think-science." Philosophy is > neither primarily about thought, nor is it a science in any sense of > the word. Interestingly, in a part of the TL passage which I omitted, pc discusses the 1975 Loglan word for "psychology", which is (in Lojban form) "trasensi", behave-science. He criticizes this form as being too specific -- it assumes behaviorism as the dominant form of psychology (probably true in American academia in 1969, when the first edition of L4/L5 came out). > A much better term for philosophy would be "mother-of-sciences." An interesting idea: "skemamta", anyone? Probably needs to be "pevskemamta", but that would meet Nick's point about philosophy being idiosyncratic: use a figurative lujvo rather than a Latinate le'avla. -- John Cowan sharing account for now e'osai ko sarji la lojban.